carcer

== Latin == === Etymology === Derived from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of cancer. Cognate with circus, curvus, crux, crīnis, crispus, English ring. It is not known how the noun shifted to the third declension. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkar.kɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkar.t͡ʃer] === Noun === carcer m (genitive carceris); third declension prison, jail Synonyms: tenebrae, (Mediaeval) carcellāria jailbird traps (barriers at start of a horse race) commencement, beginning starting gate ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “carcer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “carcer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “carcer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “carcer”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “carcer”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press “carcer”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Old Galician-Portuguese == === Alternative forms === carcel === Etymology === From Latin carcer, carcerem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.t͡seɾ/ === Noun === carcer f (plural carcers) jail, prison eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida. Lady, I beg you, please take me out of this dark prison and let me see your beautiful face in Heaven. ==== Descendants ==== Galician: cárcere Portuguese: cárcere