carruca
English
Alternative forms
Noun
carruca (plural carrucas)
- (historical) A heavy wheeled turnplow used during the Middle Ages.
- 1912, Ralph Straus, Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution, page 34:
- Pliny mentions another carriage of imperial Rome — the carruca, which had four wheels and was used equally in the city and for long journeys.
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Hypernyms
- moldboard plow, turnplow
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /karˈru.ka/, [kär̺ˈr̺uːkä]
- Stress: carrùca
- Hyphenation: car‧ru‧ca
Synonyms
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From carrus, probably from Transalpine Gaulish.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /karˈruː.ka/
Noun
carrūca f (genitive carrūcae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | carrūca | carrūcae |
Genitive | carrūcae | carrūcārum |
Dative | carrūcae | carrūcīs |
Accusative | carrūcam | carrūcās |
Ablative | carrūcā | carrūcīs |
Vocative | carrūca | carrūcae |
Derived terms
- carrucata
Descendants
References
- carruca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- carruca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- carruca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- carruca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carruca in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- carruca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Western Civilization, Jackson J. Spielvogal, volume 1, To 1715
- (etymology) The Breeches Bible: Considered as the Basis for Remarks, James Gurnhill (1862), page 25
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