carex
See also: Carex
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Perhaps related to carrō (“I card”); see English card (sense 2).[1] However, compare Welsh cors (“reeds, bog”), Irish corrach (“marsh, bog”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.reks/, [ˈkäːrɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.reks/, [ˈkäːreks]
Noun edit
cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension
Declension edit
- Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cārex | cāricēs |
| Genitive | cāricis | cāricum |
| Dative | cāricī | cāricibus |
| Accusative | cāricem | cāricēs |
| Ablative | cārice | cāricibus |
| Vocative | cārex | cāricēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: carç
- Italian: carice
- Venetian: caréto
- → Cimbrian: karìtz
- Mozarabic: [script needed] (qárriči)
- → Catalan: càrritx
- Vulgar Latin: *cariceus
- → English: carex
- → French: carex
- → Translingual: Carex
References edit
- “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cārex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 100
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cors”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies