# carrus
## English
### Alternative forms

* charrus

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carrus. Doublet of car.

### 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: /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkärːus]

### 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
** 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 plumboThe 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.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | carrus | carrī |
| Genitive | carrī | carrōrum |
| Dative | carrō | carrīs |
| Accusative | carrum | carrōs |
| Ablative | carrō | carrīs |
| Vocative | carre | carrī |

#### 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

* → Albanian: *karr
** Albanian: qerre
*** Albanian: kerr
* → Ancient Greek: κάρρον (kárrhon)
* Aromanian: car
* Asturian: carru
* Catalan: carro
* → Czech: kára
* → Dutch: kar
* Friulian: cjâr, cjar
* → German: Karre
* Italian: carro
* Occitan: car, carri, carro
* → Old Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ), կառ (kaṙ) — uncommon, in the singular
** → Armenian: կառք (kaṙkʻ)
* Old French: char
** French: char
* Old French: carre
** → Middle English: carre, car, kerre
*** English: car (see there for further descendants)
*** Yola: car
* Old Galician-Portuguese: carro
** Fala: carru
** Galician: carro
** Portuguese: carro
* Old Spanish: carro
** Spanish: carro
*** → Cebuano: karo
*** → Tagalog: karo
* → Polish: kareta
* → Russian: карета (kareta)
* Romagnol: car
* Romanian: car, încărca
* Sardinian: carru
* Sicilian: carru
* Venetian: car, caro, caret
* → Old Norse: kerra f
** Icelandic: kerra
** Faroese: kerra
** Norwegian Nynorsk: kjerre; (dialectal) kjerra, kjørr, kjarra
** Norwegian Bokmål: kjerre
** Swedish: kärra
** Danish: kærre

### References

* “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’s 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