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carrus

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English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin carrus (load). Doublet of car and horse.

Noun

carrus (plural carri)

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

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Latin

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Etymology

    Borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (wagon), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (to run). Doublet of currus.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    carrus m (genitive carrī); second declension

    1. a wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart
    2. a cartload, a wagonload
    3. (New Latin) car
    4. (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.

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    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: carru
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:

    Borrowings:

    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
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    Sardinian

    Noun

    carrus m pl

    1. plural of carru

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