carrus

== English == === Alternative forms === charrus === 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 === carrum, charrus === 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 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (vehicle): plaustrum, iumentum, currus (unit of weight or volume): charrus, carecta, plaustrata ==== Hyponyms ==== (1⁄30 carrus) fontinellus, fotmal, pes (1⁄150 carrus) petra (1⁄2100 carrus) libra ==== Derived terms ==== carrārius carricō carrūca ==== Descendants ==== Borrowings: === References === === 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 == Sardinian == === Noun === carrus m pl plural of carru