English

Alternative forms

• charrus

Noun

carrus ‎(plural carri)

1. (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

From Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros ‎(“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-o-, zero-grade form of *ḱers- ‎(“to run”). Cognate to currō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.rus/, [ˈkar.rʊs]

Noun

carrus m ‎(genitive carrī); second declension

1. a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart
2. a cartload, a wagonload
3. (Medieval) 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 plumbo

     The 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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (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

• carrāria
• carricō

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “carrus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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