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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)
- (uncommon, historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Synonyms
- See load
Hyponyms
- See load
Latin
Alternative forms
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkar.rʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkar.rus]
Noun
carrus 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
Second-declension noun.
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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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Noun
carrus m pl
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