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語源

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

名詞

carrus (plural carri)

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

同意語

• See load

下位語

• See load

語源

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkar.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkar.rus]

名詞

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.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• (vehicle): plaustrum, iumentum, currus
• (unit of weight or volume): charrus, carecta, plaustrata

下位語

• (⁄₃₀ carrus) fontinellus, fotmal, pes
• (⁄₁₅₀ carrus) petra
• (⁄₂₁₀₀ carrus) libra

派生語

• carrārius
• carricō
• carrūca

派生した語

Borrowings:

参照

Further reading

• “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, 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