carro

See also: Carro and caro

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan carro, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”). Compare Occitan carri, carro, car.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.ro]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

Derived terms

• carret
• carreta
• carro de golf
• carrutxa

Related terms

• carreter
• carretera
• carrossa

References

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “carro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Further reading

• “carro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “carro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “carro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish carro.

Noun

carro (plural carros)

1. car.
2. chariot.

Galician

Traditional carros

Morte no traballo (1899), by Xenaro Carrero

O Carro

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro, from Latin carrus (“cart”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/ [ˈkɑ.rʊ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aro

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. wagon
3. car

   Teño as cortes sin molime , E vou amañar o carro.

   I have the cuts without a problem, and I'm going to fix the car.

4. cartload, wagonload
5. a load (unit of weight)
6. Big Dipper, Ursa Major

   Synonym: Carro

Derived terms

• Carral
• Carrás
• carreira
• carreiro
• carreta
• carretar
• carreto
• Carril
• carril
• Carriño
• Carrís
• Carro

References

• “carro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin carrus. Doublet of curro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ro/
• Rhymes: -arro
• Hyphenation: càr‧ro

Noun

carro m (plural carri)

1. a wagon, cart, van, lorry or truck (a means of transport used to carry goods)

Derived terms

• carro armato
• carro attrezzi
• carro bestiame
• carro funebre
• carro merci

Related terms

• carrabile
• carraia
• carraio
• carreggiare
• carreggiata
• carrello
• carretto
• carriera
• carriola
• carrozza
• carrozzone

Anagrams

• corra

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *karzō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kers- (“to comb wool”), extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“combs, cards”), Latvian kā̀rst (“combs, cards”), Old High German scerran (“to scratch”). Varro falsely connects this with careō, possibly because the word had already gone extinct in his time, with the only reminiscence being carmen (“card for flax or wool”) which was the evident derivational base of the rather common carminō (“to card”).

Alternative forms

• carō, carriō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.ro]

Verb

carrō (present infinitive carrere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. (rare) to card (wool)
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 797:

     inter ancillās sedēre jubeās, lānam ca<r>rere.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of carrō (third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	carrō		carris		carrit		carrimus		carritis		carrunt
	imperfect	carrēbam		carrēbās		carrēbat		carrēbāmus		carrēbātis		carrēbant
	future	carram		carrēs		carret		carrēmus		carrētis		carrent
passive	present	carror		carreris, carrere		carritur		carrimur		carriminī		carruntur
	imperfect	carrēbar		carrēbāris, carrēbāre		carrēbātur		carrēbāmur		carrēbāminī		carrēbantur
	future	carrar		carrēris, carrēre		carrētur		carrēmur		carrēminī		carrentur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	carram		carrās		carrat		carrāmus		carrātis		carrant
	imperfect	carrerem		carrerēs		carreret		carrerēmus		carrerētis		carrerent
passive	present	carrar		carrāris, carrāre		carrātur		carrāmur		carrāminī		carrantur
	imperfect	carrerer		carrerēris, carrerēre		carrerētur		carrerēmur		carrerēminī		carrerentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		carre		—		—		carrite		—
	future	—		carritō		carritō		—		carritōte		carruntō
passive	present	—		carrere		—		—		carriminī		—
	future	—		carritor		carritor		—		—		carruntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		carrere			carrī			carrēns			—
future		—			—			—			carrendus, carrundus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		carrendī		carrendō		carrendum		carrendō		—		—

Derived terms

• carmen

References

• “carr(i)o” in volume 3, column 497, line 64 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “carrō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95

Etymology 2

Noun

carrō

1. dative/ablative singular of carrus

Mirandese

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. automobile, car

Synonyms

• altemoble

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan carri, car), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

Related to Catalan carro.

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

Old Catalan

Alternative forms

• carre

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

Noun

carro m

1. cart

Derived terms

• carreta

Descendants

• Catalan: carro

References

• Joan Coromines (1980–1991), “carro”, in Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/
• Rhymes: -aro

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. (by extension) cartload

Related terms

• carregar
• carreira
• carreiro
• carrejador
• carrejar
• carreta
• carretar
• carreteiro
• carril

Descendants

• Fala: carru
• Galician: carro
• Portuguese: carro

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “carro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carrus.

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

Descendants

• Ladino: karro / קארו
• Spanish: carro
  • → Cebuano: karo
  • → Tagalog: karo

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “carro”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 101

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʁu/ [ˈka.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʁo/ [ˈka.ho]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʁu/

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ka.ru/
• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ru/
• Rhymes: -aʁu
• Hyphenation: car‧ro

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart (vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal)

   Synonyms: carroça, carreta

2. car; automobile

   Synonyms: auto, automóvel, veículo

3. any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as an elevator, a cable car, or a train wagon

Derived terms

• carrão
• carreiro
• carreta
• carrinho
• carro alegórico
• carro desportivo
• carro-chefe
• carro-esporte

Related terms

• carga
• cargo
• cargueiro
• carreador
• carreadouro
• carregação
• carregadeira
• carregar
• carrego
• carreira
• carretagem
• carreteiro
• carreto
• carril
• carriola
• carroça
• carroçada
• carroçaria
• carroçável
• carroceiro
• carrossel
• carruagem

Descendants

• → Kimbundu: dikalu

Further reading

• “carro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “carro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “carro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós

Proto-Celtic *karros

Gaulish *karrosbor.

Latin carrus

Old Spanish carro

Spanish carro

Inherited from Old Spanish carro, from Latin carrus. Distant cognate with English horse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/ [ˈka.ro]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aro
• Syllabification: ca‧rro

Noun

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. (Latin America) car, automobile (used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico)

   Synonyms: auto, automóvil, coche, (Spain, colloquial) buga

3. (Peru, Ecuador, by extension) a bus or minivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another (while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles)

   Synonym: (Argentina) bondi

4. (Latin America) train car
5. (slang) cocaine paste

   Synonym: bazuco

Hyponyms

• carro fúnebre

Derived terms

• acarrear
• anticarro
• carrazo
• carrero
• carreta
• carrete
• carril
• carrillo
• carrito
• carro de asalto
• carro de combate
• carro de oro
• carro de tierra
• carro hidrante
• Carro Mayor
• carros y carretas
• cazacarros
• parar el carro
• poner el carro delante de los bueyes
• poner el carro delante del caballo
• robacarros
• subirse al carro
• tirar del carro
• untar el carro

Related terms

• cargar
• carrera
• carretela
• carroza
• carruaje

Descendants

• → Cebuano: karo
• → Tagalog: karo

Further reading

• “carro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• corra
• croar