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See also: càrcer

carcer m ‎(genitive carceris); third declension

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

Third declension.

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

From Latin carcer, carceris.

carcer

jail, prison
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 149 (facsimile):
  eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida.
  Lady, I beg you, please take me out of this dark prison and let me see your beautiful face in Heaven.