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carcer

carcer

See also: càrcer

Latin

Noun

carcer m ‎(genitive carceris); third declension

  1. prison, jail
  2. jailbird
  3. traps (barriers at start of a horse race)
  4. commencement, beginning
  5. starting gate
    Ad carceres a calce revocari.‎
    To be called back from the finish line to the starting gates.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative carcer carcerēs
genitive carceris carcerum
dative carcerī carceribus
accusative carcerem carcerēs
ablative carcere carceribus
vocative carcer carcerēs

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
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “carcer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to throw some one into prison: in carcerem conicere aliquem
  • 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 Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin carcer, carceris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.t͡seɾ/

Noun

carcer

  1. jail, prison

Descendants

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- ‎(“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- ‎(“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure". Cognate with Latin cancer and curvus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.ker/, [ˈkar.kɛr]

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