carbo

See also: Carbo, carbó, and carbo-

English

Etymology

Shortening of carbohydrate.

Noun

carbo (plural carbos)

1. (informal) carbohydrate
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     Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.

Anagrams

• Barco, COBRA, CORBA, carob, coarb, cobra

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Latin

Etymology

Unsure. The status of Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat", "fire", also "to burn”) is uncertain. Probably related to Old English heorþ (“hearth”), Old Norse hyrr (“fire”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”), Old High German harsta (“roasting”), Russian курить (kuritʹ, “to smoke, burn, fumigate”) and церен (ceren, “brazier”), Old Church Slavonic курйо (kurjo, “to smoke”) and крада (krada, “hearth, fireplace”), Lithuanian kurtì (“to heat”), karštas (“hot”) and krosnis (“oven”), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “burnt, black”) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, “singes”), and maybe Latin cremāre (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.boː/, [ˈkärboː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.bo/, [ˈkärbo]

Noun

carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension

1. charcoal, coal

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carbō	carbōnēs
Genitive	carbōnis	carbōnum
Dative	carbōnī	carbōnibus
Accusative	carbōnem	carbōnēs
Ablative	carbōne	carbōnibus
Vocative	carbō	carbōnēs

Derived terms

• carbōnārius
• carbōnēscō
• carbunculus

Related terms

• carbunculātiō
• carbunculō
• carbunculōsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãrbuni
• Asturian: carbón
• Catalan: carbó, carboni
• → French: carbone
  • → English: carbon
    • → Navajo: káábin
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: karbon
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: karbon
  • → Portuguese: carbono
  • → Romanian: carbon
  • → Spanish: carbono
  • → Turkish: karbon
• Friulian: cjarbon, cjarvon, čharvon
• Galician: carbón
• Italian: carbone
• Norman: tchèrbon, tcherbaon

• Occitan: carbon
• Old Portuguese: carvon
• Piedmontese: carbon
• Old French: charbon
  • French: charbon
• Portuguese: carvão
• Romanian: cărbune
• Romansch: charvun, carvung, cravun, charbun
• Sardinian: calvone, carvone, carbone, crabone, carboni
• Sicilian: carvuni, carbuni, cravuni, crauni
• Spanish: carbón
• Venetian: carbon
• Walloon: tcherbon

Further reading

• “carbo”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carbo 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)
• carbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “carbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carbo”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray