carabus

See also: cărăbuș and Carabus

English

Etymology

From Latin carabus. The entomological sense is borrowed from translingual Carabus, from the same Latin source.

Noun

carabus (plural carabuses or carabi)

1. (historical) An ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.
2. (entomology) A ground beetle of the genus Carabus.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos).

Noun

cārabus m (genitive cārabī); second declension

1. crab, crayfish
2. kind of ship

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cārabus	cārabī
Genitive	cārabī	cārabōrum
Dative	cārabō	cārabīs
Accusative	cārabum	cārabōs
Ablative	cārabō	cārabīs
Vocative	cārabe	cārabī

Descendants

• Old Catalan: càreu
  • Catalan: caro

References

• “carabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carabus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “carabus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carabus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin