carabus

See also: cărăbuș and Carabus

English

Etymology

From Latin carabus.

Noun

carabus (plural carabi)

1. (historical) An ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos).

Noun

cārabus m (genitive cārabī); second declension

1. crab, crayfish
2. kind of ship

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cārabus	cārabī
Genitive	cārabī	cārabōrum
Dative	cārabō	cārabīs
Accusative	cārabum	cārabōs
Ablative	cārabō	cārabīs
Vocative	cārabe	cārabī

Descendants

• Old Catalan: càreu
  • Catalan: caro

References

• “carabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carabus 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)
• “carabus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carabus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin