carrus
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin carrus. Doublet of car.
Noun
editcarrus (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
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of currus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːus]
Noun
editcarrus m (genitive carrī); second declension
- a wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart
- a cartload, a wagonload
- (New Latin) car
- (Medieval Latin) a load, an English unit of weight
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | carrus | carrī |
genitive | carrī | carrōrum |
dative | carrō | carrīs |
accusative | carrum | carrōs |
ablative | carrō | carrīs |
vocative | carre | carrī |
Synonyms
editHyponyms
edit- (1⁄30 carrus) fontinellus, fotmal, pes
- (1⁄150 carrus) petra
- (1⁄2100 carrus) libra
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Albanian: *karr
- → Ancient Greek: κάρρον (kárrhon)
- Aromanian: car
- Asturian: carru
- Catalan: carro
- → Czech: kára
- → Dutch: kar
- Friulian: cjâr, cjar
- → German: Karre
- Italian: carro
- Occitan: car, carri, carro
- → Old Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ), կառ (kaṙ) — uncommon, in the singular
- → Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ)
- Old French: char
- French: char
- Old French: carre
- Old Galician-Portuguese: carro
- Old Spanish: carro
- → Polish: kareta
- → Russian: карета (kareta)
- Romagnol: car
- Romanian: car, încărca
- Sardinian: carru
- Sicilian: carru
- Venetan: car, caro, caret
- → Old Norse: kerra f
References
edit- “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
Sardinian
editNoun
editcarrus m pl
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- en:Units of measure
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