Inherited fromOld Catalan carro , fromLatin carrus , fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) . CompareOccitan carri ,carro ,car .
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cart “carro” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl [ edit ] FromSpanish carro .
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car .chariot .Traditionalcarros Morte no traballo (1899), by Xenaro Carrero OCarro FromOld Galician-Portuguese carro , fromLatin carrus ( “ cart ” ) , fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) .
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cart wagon car cartload ,wagonload aload (unit ofweight ) Big Dipper ,Ursa Major Synonym: Carro Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “carro ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “carro ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “carro ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN FromLatin carrus , fromGaulish *karros ( “ wagon ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *karros ( “ wagon ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós ( “ vehicle ” ) , derived from the root*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) .Doublet ofcurro .
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a means oftransport used to carrygoods ; awagon ,cart ,van ,lorry ortruck FromProto-Italic *karzō , from the Proto-Indo-European root*(s)kers- ( “ to comb wool ” ) , extended from*(s)ker- ( “ to cut ” ) . Compare Lithuaniankar̃šti ( “ combs, cards ” ) , Latviankā̀rst ( “ combs, cards ” ) , Old High Germanscerran ( “ to scratch ” ) . Varro falsely connects this withcareō , possibly because the word had already gone extinct in his time, with the only reminiscence beingcarmen ( “ card for flax or wool ” ) which was the evident derivational base of the rather commoncarminō ( “ I card ” ) .
carrō (present infinitive carrere ) ;third conjugation , noperfect orsupine stems
( rare ) tocard (wool)“carr(i)o ” in volume 3, column 497, line 64 in theThesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access) , Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present De Vaan, Michiel (2008 ) “carrō”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN ,page95 carrō
dative / ablative singular ofcarrus carro m (plural carros )
automobile ,car FromOld Occitan (compareOccitan carri ,car ), fromLatin carrus , fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) .
Related to Catalancarro .
carro m (plural carros )
cart Inherited fromLatin carrus , borrowed fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Celtic *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- +*-ós .
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cart Coromines, Joan (1980–1991 ) “carro ”, inDiccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana , Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes .Old Galician-Portuguese [ edit ] Inherited fromLatin carrus , borrowed fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Celtic *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- +*-ós .
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cart ( by extension ) cartload Inherited fromLatin carrus , borrowed fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Celtic *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- +*-ós .
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cart Ralph Steele Boggset al. (1946 ) “carro”, inTentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish , volume I, Chapel Hill,page101 FromOld Galician-Portuguese carro ( “ cart ” ) , fromLatin carrus , fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) .
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cart ( vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal ) Synonyms: carroça ,carreta car ;automobile Synonyms: auto ,automóvel ,veículo any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as anelevator , acable car , or a trainwagon Inherited fromOld Spanish carro , fromLatin carrus , fromGaulish *karros , fromProto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós , from*ḱers- ( “ to run ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈkaro/ [ˈka.ro] Rhymes:-aro Syllabification:ca‧rro carro m (plural carros )
cart ( Latin America ) car ,automobile ( used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico ) Synonyms: auto ,automóvil ,coche ,( Spain, colloquial ) buga ( Peru , Ecuador , by extension) abus orminivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another( while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles ) Synonym: ( Argentina ) bondi ( Latin America ) train car ( slang ) cocaine paste