Translingual

Proper noun

Carex f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyperaceae – a group of sedges.

Hyponyms

• (genus): For species, see List of Carex species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Carex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Carex halleriana

Wikispecies

Noun

carex ‎(plural carexes or carices)

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kars- ‎(“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”). See also Sanskrit कषति ‎(kaṣati, “scratches, rubs”), Middle Low German harsch ‎(“hairy”), Russian короста ‎(korosta, “to itch”), Old Church Slavonic краста ‎(krasta), Lithuanian karsiu ‎(“to comb”).

Noun

carex

1. reedgrass
2. sedges
3. rushes

Descendants

• English: carex
• French: carex
• Italian: carice
• Spanish: carrizo
• Translingual: Carex

References

• carex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “carex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.