carrus

English

Alternative forms

• charrus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carrus

Noun

carrus (plural carri)

1. (uncommon, historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

Synonyms

• See load

Hyponyms

• See load

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Latin

Alternative forms

• carrum, charrus

Etymology

From Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with Persian گاری‎ (gâri). Doublet of currus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkar.rʊs]

Noun

carrus m (genitive carrī); second declension

1. a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart
2. a cartload, a wagonload
3. (Medieval) a load, an English unit of weight
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Saccus lane debet ponderare viginti & octo petras & solebat ponderare unam summam frumenti & ponderat sextam partem unius carri de plumbo

     The sack of wool ought to weigh twenty & eight stone & is accustomed to weigh one quarter of wheat & weights the sixth part of one cartload of lead.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carrus	carrī
Genitive	carrī	carrōrum
Dative	carrō	carrīs
Accusative	carrum	carrōs
Ablative	carrō	carrīs
Vocative	carre	carrī

Synonyms

• (vehicle): plaustrum, iumentum, currus
• (unit of weight or volume): charrus, carecta, plaustrata

Hyponyms

• (¹/₃₀ carrus) fontinellus, fotmal, pes
• (¹/₁₅₀ carrus) petra
• (¹/₂₁₀₀ carrus) libra

Derived terms

• carrāria
• carricō
• carrūca

Descendants

• Albanian: karro
• Aromanian: car
• Asturian: carru
• Catalan: carro
• Czech: kára
• Dutch: kar
• English: car
• French: char
• Friulian: cjâr, cjar
• German: Karre
• Italian: carro
• Occitan: car, carri, carro
• Old Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʿ)
  • Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʿ)

• Polish: kareta
• Russian: карета (kareta)
• Portuguese: carro
• Romanian: car, încărca
• Sicilian: carru
• Spanish: carro
• Swedish: kärra
• Venetian: car, caro, caret
• Norwegian: kjerre, karre

References

• carrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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, 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