From the verb carrer. Old French querre was inherited from Latin quadrus.
carre f (plural carres)
- stature
- angle
- the side of a sword blade
- skating figure
- (ski) edge (of a ski)
carre
- inflection of carrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
carre
- vocative singular of carrus
From Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.
carre (plural carres)
- cart, wagon
From Latin carra, neuter plural of carrus. Compare French char, from Old French.
carre oblique singular, f (oblique plural carres, nominative singular carre, nominative plural carres)
- (Anglo-Norman) cart (wheeled vehicle)
c. 1150, author unknown, La Chanson de Roland:Vos li durrez urs e leons e chens,
Set cenz camelz e mil hosturs muers,
D’or e d’argent.IIII.C. muls cargez,
Cinquante carre, qu’en ferat carier :- You will give him bears, lions and dogs
Seven hundred camels and a thousand [?]
Of gold and of silver, load 400 mules
50 carts, [?]
- → Middle English: carre
- English: car
- → French: car
- → Russian: кар (kar)
- ⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)
- → Japanese: カー
From Latin carnem, accusative form of carō (“flesh”, “meat”), from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”).
carre f (plural carres)
- meat, flesh
- Synonym: petza