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-os, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with Persian گاری (gâri). Doublet of currus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːus]

Noun

carrus m (genitive carrī); second declension

1. a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart
2. a cartload, a wagonload
3. (Medieval Latin) 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.

Declension

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

• (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
• Ancient Greek: κάρρον (kárrhon)
• Aromanian: car
• Asturian: carru
• Catalan: carro
• Czech: kára
• Dutch: kar
• English: car
• French: char
• Friulian: cjâr, cjar
• Galician: carro
• German: Karre
• Italian: carro
• Occitan: car, carri, carro
• Old Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ)
  • Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ)

• 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 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