Borrowed from Latin carrus. Doublet of car.
carrus (plural carri)
- (uncommon, historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, zero-grade form of *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of currus.
carrus m (genitive carrī); second declension
- a wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart
- a cartload, a wagonload
- (New Latin) car
- (Medieval Latin) a load, an English unit of weight
c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:Saccus lane debet ponderare viginti & octo petras & solebat ponderare unam summam frumenti & ponderat sextam partem unius carri de plumbo- The sack of wool ought to weigh twenty & eight stone & is accustomed to weigh one quarter of wheat & weights the sixth part of one cartload of lead.
Second-declension noun.
- “carrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- carrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “carrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “carrus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
carrus m pl
- plural of carru