carbo
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
carbo (plural carbos)
- (informal) carbohydrate
- 2002, Jennifer Hanson, The Real Freshman Handbook:
- Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”), see also 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 kuriu (“to heat”), karštas (“hot”) and krosnis (“oven”), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “burnt, black”) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, “singes”), Latin cremāre (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkar.boː/, [ˈkärboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.bo/, [ˈkärbo]
Noun
carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension
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
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: cãrbuni
- Asturian: carbón
- → English: carbon
- → Navajo: káábin
- Catalan: carbó, carboni
- French: charbon, carbone
- Friulian: cjarbon, cjarvon, čharvon
- Galician: carbón
- Italian: carbone
- Norman: tchèrbon, tcherbaon
- Norwegian Bokmål: karbon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: karbon
- Occitan: carbon
- Old Galician-Portuguese: carvon
- Portuguese: carvão, carbono (borrowing)
- Romanian: cărbune
- Romansch: charvun, carvung, cravun, charbun
- Sardinian: calvone, carvone, carbone, crabone, carboni
- Sicilian: carvuni, carbuni, cravuni, crauni
- Spanish: carbón, carbono
- Venetian: carbon
- Walloon: tcherbon
References
- “carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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