carbo

See also: Carbo, carbó, and carbo-

English

Etymology

Shortening of carbohydrate.

Noun

carbo (plural carbos)

1. (informal) carbohydrate
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     Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.

Derived terms

• carbo-load

Anagrams

• Barco, COBRA, CORBA, carob, coarb, cobra

Latin

Etymology

Unsure. The status of Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat", "fire", also "to burn”) is uncertain.^[1] Probably related to Old English heorþ (“hearth”), Old Norse hyrr (“fire”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”), Old High German harsta (“roasting”), Russian курить (kuritʹ, “to smoke, burn, fumigate”) and церен (ceren, “brazier”), Old Church Slavonic курити (kuriti, “to smoke”) and крада (krada, “hearth, fireplace”), Lithuanian kurtì (“to heat”), karštas (“hot”) and krosnis (“oven”), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “burnt, black”) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, “singes”), and maybe Latin cremāre (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.boː/, [ˈkärboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.bo/, [ˈkärbo]

Noun

carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension

1. charcoal, coal

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carbō	carbōnēs
genitive	carbōnis	carbōnum
dative	carbōnī	carbōnibus
accusative	carbōnem	carbōnēs
ablative	carbōne	carbōnibus
vocative	carbō	carbōnēs

Derived terms

• carbōnārius
• carbōnēscō
• carbunculus

Related terms

• carbunculātiō
• carbunculō
• carbunculōsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: cãrbuni
• Asturian: carbón
• Catalan: carbó, carboni
• → French: carbone (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: carbon
• Friulian: cjarbon, cjarvon, čharvon
• Italian: carbone
• Neapolitan: cravone
• Norman: tchèrbon, tcherbaon
• Occitan: carbon
• Old Galician-Portuguese: carvon
  • Galician: carbón
  • Portuguese: carvão
• Piedmontese: carbon
• Old French: charbon
  • French: charbon
• Romanian: cărbune
• Romansch: charvun, carvung, cravun, charbun
• Sardinian: calvone, carvone, carbone, crabone, carboni
• Sicilian: carvuni, carbuni, cravuni, crauni
• Spanish: carbón
• Venetan: carbon
• Walloon: tcherbon

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carbō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 91-2

Further reading

• “carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carbo 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)
• carbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “carbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carbo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray