carex

See also: Carex

English

Carex halleriana

Etymology

From Latin carex.

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Alternative forms

• cārix

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to carrō (“to card”); see English card (sense 2). However, compare Welsh cors (“reeds, bog”), Irish corrach (“marsh, bog”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.rɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.reks]

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

1. sedge

   Synonym: ulva

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cārex	cāricēs
genitive	cāricis	cāricum
dative	cāricī	cāricibus
accusative	cāricem	cāricēs
ablative	cārice	cāricibus
vocative	cārex	cāricēs

Derived terms

• cārectum

Descendants

• Catalan: carç
• Italian: carice
• Venetan: caréto
  • → Cimbrian: karìtz
• Mozarabic: [script needed] (qárriči)
  • → Catalan: càrritx
• Vulgar Latin: *cariceus
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: carriço
    • Galician: carrizo
    • Portuguese: carriço
  • Spanish: carrizo
• → English: carex
• → French: carex
• → Translingual: Carex

References

• “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “cārex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 100