carex

See also: Carex

English

Carex halleriana

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

  1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kars- (to scratch, scrape, rub, card). See also Sanskrit कषति (kaṣati, scratches, rubs), Middle Low German harsch (hairy), Russian короста (korosta, scab), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (to comb).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.reks/, [ˈkaː.rɛks]

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

  1. reedgrass
  2. sedges
  3. rushes

Inflection

  • Third declension.
Case Singular Plural
Nominative cārex cāricēs
Genitive cāricis cāricum
Dative cāricī cāricibus
Accusative cāricem cāricēs
Ablative cārice cāricibus
Vocative cārex cāricēs

Descendants

References

  • 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
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