carbo

See also: Carbo, carbó, and carbo-

Contents

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

carbo (plural carbos)

1. (informal) carbohydrate
   • 2002, Jennifer Hanson, The Real Freshman Handbook

     Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.

Anagrams

• Barco, COBRA, CORBA, carob, coarb, cobra

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”), see also Old English heorþ (“hearth”), Old Norse hyrr (“fire”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”), Old High German harsta (“roasting”), Russian курить (kuritʹ, “to smoke, burn, fumigate”) and церен (ceren, “brazier”), Old Church Slavonic курйо (kurйo, “to smoke”) and крада (krada, “hearth, fireplace”), Lithuanian kuriu (“to heat”), karstas (“hot”) and krosnis (“oven”), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “burnt, black”) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, “singes”), Latin cremāre (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.boː/

Noun

carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension

1. charcoal, coal

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carbō	carbōnēs
Genitive	carbōnis	carbōnum
Dative	carbōnī	carbōnibus
Accusative	carbōnem	carbōnēs
Ablative	carbōne	carbōnibus
Vocative	carbō	carbōnēs

Derived terms

• carbōnārius
• carbōnēscō
• carbunculus

Related terms

• carbunculātiō
• carbunculō
• carbunculōsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãrbuni
• Asturian: carbón
• → English: carbon
  • → Navajo: káábin
• French: charbon, carbone
• Friulian: cjarbon, cjarvon, čharvon
• Galician: carbón
• Italian: carbone
• Norman: tchèrbon, tcherbaon
• Norwegian Bokmål: karbon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karbon

• Occitan: carbon
• Old Portuguese: carvon
• Portuguese: carvão, carbono (borrowing)
• Romanian: cărbune
• Romansch: charvun, carvung, cravun, charbun
• Sardinian: calvone, carvone, carbone, crabone, carboni
• Sicilian: carvuni, carbuni, cravuni, crauni
• Spanish: carbón, carbono
• Venetian: carbon
• Walloon: tcherbon

References

• carbo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carbo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carbo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• carbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• carbo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carbo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray