currus

== Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from the root *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of carrus and currō (“to run”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊr.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkur.rus] === Noun === currus m (genitive currūs); fourth declension chariot, car (more often two-wheeled cars (biga) used in battle and in racing) Synonyms: carpentum, vehiculum currum agere ― to drive a chariot wagon, wain (by extension, poetic) ship, boat (by extension, poetic) the horses drawing a chariot, a team, span (by extension, mechanics) a pair of small wheels by which the beam of a plough was supported and guided ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== autocurrus (New Latin) currīlis curūlis, currūlis *currūlus (Vulgar Latin) Italian: corlo, curlo(Siena), >? zurlo(Venice) ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: curro === References === === Further reading === “currus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "currus", 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) “currus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “currus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “currus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin