charrus

English

Noun

charrus (plural charruses)

1. Alternative form of carrus

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Latin

Noun

charrus m (genitive charrī); second declension

1. Alternative form of carrus (“English unit of weight”)
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1, p. 168:

     Another element of weight is the charrus, carecta, or plaustrata of lead. This quantity contained thrity fontinelli, fotmael, pedes, or pigs. Each pes contained five petrae of fourteen pounds each, and therefore the pes was 70 avoirdupois pounds and the charrus 2100 lbs.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	charrus	charrī
Genitive	charrī	charrōrum
Dative	charrō	charrīs
Accusative	charrum	charrōs
Ablative	charrō	charrīs
Vocative	charre	charrī

References

• charrus 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)