currus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from *ḱers- (“to run”), the same root of currō. Doublet of carrus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.rus/, [ˈkʊrːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.rus/, [ˈkurːus]
Noun edit
currus m (genitive currūs); fourth declension
- chariot, car
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.498-499:
- quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs
iungit et aequoreās sicca pererrat aquās- And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to [her] chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves.
(See Ceres (mythology).)
- And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to [her] chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves.
- quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs
- wagon, wain
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | currus | currūs |
Genitive | currūs | curruum |
Dative | curruī | curribus |
Accusative | currum | currūs |
Ablative | currū | curribus |
Vocative | currus | currūs |
Derived terms edit
- curūlis, currūlis
- currīlis
- autocurrus (New Latin)
References edit
- “currus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- currus 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)
- currus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drive: curru vehi, in rheda (Mil. 21. 55)
- to drive: curru vehi, in rheda (Mil. 21. 55)
- “currus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “currus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin