carabus

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See also: cărăbuș and Carabus

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos).

Noun

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cārabus m (genitive cārabī); second declension

  1. crab, crayfish
  2. kind of ship

Declension

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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

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  • Old Catalan: càreu

References

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  • 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