carex

See also: Carex

English

Carex halleriana

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”). See also Sanskrit कषति (kaṣati, “scratches, rubs”), Middle Low German harsch (“hairy”), Russian короста (korosta, “scab”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.reks/, [ˈkäːrɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.reks/, [ˈkäːreks]

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

1. reedgrass
2. sedges
3. rushes

Declension

• Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cārex	cāricēs
Genitive	cāricis	cāricum
Dative	cāricī	cāricibus
Accusative	cāricem	cāricēs
Ablative	cārice	cāricibus
Vocative	cārex	cāricēs

Descendants

• English: carex
• French: carex
• Galician: carrizo
• Italian: carice
• Spanish: carrizo
• 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.