(Ancient Rome) Astreet that ran north–south, in an Ancient Roman town or city
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“cardo”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cardo”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Prīma diēs tibi, Carnā, datur. deacardinis haec est: nūmine clausa aperit, claudit aperta suō.
The first day [of June] is being given to you, Carna. This is the goddessof the hinge: by her divine power she opens the closed, [and] closes the opened. (Ovidconflates the June festival of the goddess Carna with the mythology ofCardea; see alsoJanus andHinge.)
“cardo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cardo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"cardo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
the pole:vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
“cardo”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cardo”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cardō, -inis”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page92
