English

Alternative forms

• caruca

Noun

carruca ‎(plural carrucas)

1. A heavy wheeled turnplow used during the Middle Ages.

Hypernyms

• moldboard plow, turnplow

Latin

Alternative forms

• carūca

Etymology

From carrus, probably from Transalpine Gaulish.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /karˈruː.ka/

Noun

carrūca f ‎(genitive carrūcae); first declension

1. A chariot.
2. A coach.
3. (Medieval Latin) A heavy wheeled plow.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• carrucata

Descendants

• French: charrue
• Norman: qùérue (continental Normandy), tchérue (Guernsey), tchéthue (Jersey), kyerüü (Sark)
• Romanian: căruță
• Spanish: carruca

References

• carruca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CARRUCA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “carruca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• carruca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carruca in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• carruca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Western Civilization, Jackson J. Spielvogal, volume 1, To 1715
• (etymology) The Breeches Bible: Considered as the Basis for Remarks, James Gurnhill (1862), page 25