carruca

• caruca

From Latin carruca

carruca (plural carrucas)

1. (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.

• moldboard plow, turnplow

• carucate

From Latin carrūca.

• IPA^(key): /karˈru.ka/, [kär̺ˈr̺uːkä]
• Stress: carrùca
• Hyphenation: car‧ru‧ca

carruca f (plural carruche)

1. (obsolete) coach, carriage

• carrozza

• carrucola

• carūca

From carrus, probably from Transalpine Gaulish.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /karˈruː.ka/

carrūca f (genitive carrūcae); first declension

1. A chariot.
2. A coach.
3. (Medieval Latin) A heavy wheeled plow.

First declension.

• carrucata

• French: charrue
  • → Galician: charrúa
• Italian: carruca, carrozza, carroccia
• Norman: qùérue (continental Normandy), tchérue (Guernsey), tchéthue (Jersey), kyerüü (Sark)
• Romanian: căruță
• Spanish: carruca

• 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