carro
Portuguese
/ˈka.ʁu/, /ˈka.ʁɯ̥̽/, /ˈka.ru/, /ˈka.ʁu/, /ˈka.ʁo/
noun
Definitions
- cart vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal
- car; automobile
- any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as an elevator, a cable car, or a train wagon
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese carro (cart) inherited from Latin carrus (wagon, four-wheeled baggage wagon, a car, cart, four-wheeled baggage cart, wheeled vehicle) derived from Gaulish karros derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥s-o-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱr̥s-o-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- carrus English
- (caminus) Latin
- (via) Latin
- (via) carrāria Latin
- *carriāre Latin
- *carrīlis Latin
- autocarrus Latin
- carrago Latin
- carricare Latin
- carrico Latin
- carricāre Latin
- carricāre, carrico Latin
- carricō Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrāria Latin
- carrārius Latin
- carrūca Latin
- discarricāre Latin
- discarricō Latin
- carosello Italian
- carretta Italian
- carro Italian
- carrozza Italian
- autocar French
- carro Spanish, Castilian
- κάρρον Ancient Greek
- *kr̥s-o- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥s-o- Proto-Indo-European
- anticarro Portuguese
- autocarro Portuguese
- carreiro Portuguese
- carril Portuguese
- descarrilar Portuguese
- kerra Old Norse
- cariage Old French
- carier Old French
- char Old French
- chariot Old French
- carro Catalan, Valencian
- carro Galician
- car Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- căra Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- carre Middle Dutch
- karra Old High German
- կառք Old Armenian
- karre Middle High German
- kerr Albanian
- qerre Albanian
- carriere Middle French
- carro Old Portuguese
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- car Aromanian
- cariatge Occitan
- carrejar Occitan
- carro Occitan
- kärra Old Swedish
- carru Asturian
- carro Old Spanish
- carier xno
- *karros Gaulish
- carros Gaulish
- karros Gaulish
- carrià Neapolitan