carroballista

== Latin == === Etymology === From carrus (“cart”) + ballista. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kar.rɔ.balˈlɪs.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kar.ro.balˈlis.ta] === Noun === carroballista f (genitive carroballistae); first declension A ballista mounted on a cart. 4th-5th c., Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De Re Militari 2:24 ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “carroballista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “carroballista”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.