carrus
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin carrus. Doublet of car.
Noun[edit]
carrus (plural carri)
- (uncommon, historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Synonyms[edit]
- See load
Hyponyms[edit]
- See load
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with Persian گاری (gâri). Doublet of currus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carrus m (genitive carrī); second declension
- a wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart
- a cartload, a wagonload
- (New Latin) car
- (Medieval) a load, an English unit of weight
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | carrus | carrī |
Genitive | carrī | carrōrum |
Dative | carrō | carrīs |
Accusative | carrum | carrōs |
Ablative | carrō | carrīs |
Vocative | carre | carrī |
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- (1⁄30 carrus) fontinellus, fotmal, pes
- (1⁄150 carrus) petra
- (1⁄2100 carrus) libra
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Albanian: *karr
- → Ancient Greek: κάρρον (kárrhon)
- Aromanian: car
- Asturian: carru
- Catalan: carro
- → Czech: kára
- → Dutch: kar
- French: char
- Friulian: cjâr, cjar
- Galician: carro
- → German: Karre
- Italian: carro
- Occitan: car, carri, carro
- → Old Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʿ), կառ (kaṙ)
- → Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʿ)
- Old French: carre
References[edit]
- “carrus”, 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.
- “carrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carrus 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)
- carrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “carrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “carrus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Sardinian[edit]
Noun[edit]
carrus m pl
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