carat
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: carât
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, “forming diminutives”). Doublet of karat and quilate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carat (plural carats)
- A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls .
- Meronym: grain
- (historical) Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
- A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
- 18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.
Hyponyms[edit]
- metric carat (SI unit equal to 0.2 g exactly), quilate (historical Iberian and Latin American contexts)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
mass
|
measure of the purity of gold
|
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
carat m (plural carats)
Further reading[edit]
- “carat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First known attestation in 1360 in the plural as quarais. Attested in the singular as quaret at least as early as 1433. Spellings with an initial c- first attested 1367.[1]
Noun[edit]
carat m (plural caras or caraz)
- carat (measure of purity of gold)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: carat
References[edit]
- ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (carat, supplement)
Middle Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carat
Mutation[edit]
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| carat | charat | carat pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Old Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carat
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| carat | charat | carat pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
carat n (plural carate)
Declension[edit]
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æɹət
- Rhymes:English/æɹət/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- English terms with usage examples
- en:SI units
- en:Units of measure
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Middle Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Irish non-lemma forms
- Middle Irish noun forms
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
- Old Irish noun forms
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns