car
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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car
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Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of horse.
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Acronym of contents of the address part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.
car (plural cars)
From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Compare Romanian car.
car n (plural cari)
car
car (feminine cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural cares)
Inherited from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare French car.
car
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάροιον (károion, “yard, spar”), from Ancient Greek κεραίᾱ (keraíā).
car m (plural cars)
From Old Church Slavonic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
car m anim
From Old French quer (“as, since, because, for”), from Latin quārē (“how; why”). Compare Catalan car.
car
car is a coordinating conjunction while parce que is a subordinating conjunction.
Borrowed from English car, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman and the Old Northern French car, variant of Old French char. Doublet of char.
car m (plural cars)
From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *karāyeti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).
car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)
singular | plural | relative | autonomous | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||
indicative | present | caraim | carann tú; carair† |
carann sé, sí | caraimid | carann sibh | carann siad; caraid† |
a charann; a charas / a gcarann*; a gcaras* |
cartar |
past | char mé; charas | char tú; charais | char sé, sí | charamar; char muid | char sibh; charabhair | char siad; charadar | a char / ar char* |
caradh | |
past habitual | charainn / gcarainn‡‡ | chartá / gcartᇇ | charadh sé, sí / gcaradh sé, s퇇 | charaimis; charadh muid / gcaraimis‡‡; gcaradh muid‡‡ | charadh sibh / gcaradh sibh‡‡ | charaidís; charadh siad / gcaraidís‡‡; gcaradh siad‡‡ | a charadh / a gcaradh* |
chartaí / gcarta퇇 | |
future | carfaidh mé; carfad |
carfaidh tú; carfair† |
carfaidh sé, sí | carfaimid; carfaidh muid |
carfaidh sibh | carfaidh siad; carfaid† |
a charfaidh; a charfas / a gcarfaidh*; a gcarfas* |
carfar | |
conditional | charfainn / gcarfainn‡‡ | charfá / gcarfᇇ | charfadh sé, sí / gcarfadh sé, s퇇 | charfaimis; charfadh muid / gcarfaimis‡‡; gcarfadh muid‡‡ | charfadh sibh / gcarfadh sibh‡‡ | charfaidís; charfadh siad / gcarfaidís‡‡; gcarfadh siad‡‡ | a charfadh / a gcarfadh* |
charfaí / gcarfa퇇 | |
subjunctive | present | go gcara mé; go gcarad† |
go gcara tú; go gcarair† |
go gcara sé, sí | go gcaraimid; go gcara muid |
go gcara sibh | go gcara siad; go gcaraid† |
— | go gcartar |
past | dá gcarainn | dá gcartá | dá gcaradh sé, sí | dá gcaraimis; dá gcaradh muid |
dá gcaradh sibh | dá gcaraidís; dá gcaradh siad |
— | dá gcartaí | |
imperative | caraim | car | caradh sé, sí | caraimis | caraigí; caraidh† |
caraidís | — | cartar | |
verbal noun | carthain | ||||||||
past participle | cartha |
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
car | char | gcar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
car
car
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cārus.
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car m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cars, feminine plural caras)
car oblique singular, m (oblique plural cars, nominative singular cars, nominative plural car)
car
Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ). Doublet of cesarz, cezar, and kajzer.
car m pers
car m (plural chër) (Ville Unite)
From Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros. Sense 3 is influenced by French char and/or Italian carro armato.
car n (plural care)
car
From Latin caries or carius. Doublet of carie.
car m (plural cari)
From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).
car m (genitive singular cuir, plural caran)
car
From Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, *cьsarь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
cȁr m (Cyrillic spelling ца̏р)
From Serbo-Croatian cȁr, from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.
cār m anim (female equivalent caríca or cārinja)
Masculine inan., soft o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | cár | ||
gen. sing. | cárja | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
cár | cárja | cárji |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
cárja | cárjev | cárjev |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
cárju | cárjema | cárjem |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
cár | cárja | cárje |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
cárju | cárjih | cárjih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
cárjem | cárjema | cárji |
car
car (nominative plural cars)
From Middle Welsh carr, from Proto-Brythonic *karr, from Proto-Celtic *karros.
car m (plural ceir)
From Middle English carre, from Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.
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