carex

See also: Carex

English

Carex halleriana

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Etymology

From Latin carex.

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Alternative forms

• cārix

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to carrō (“I card”); see English card (sense 2).^[1] However, compare Welsh cors (“reeds, bog”), Irish corrach (“marsh, bog”).^[2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.reks/, [ˈkäːrɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.reks/, [ˈkäːreks]

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

1. sedge

   Synonym: ulva

Declension

• Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cārex	cāricēs
genitive	cāricis	cāricum
dative	cāricī	cāricibus
accusative	cāricem	cāricēs
ablative	cārice	cāricibus
vocative	cārex	cāricēs

Derived terms

• cārectum

Descendants

• Catalan: carç
• Italian: carice
• Venetan: caréto
  • → Cimbrian: karìtz
• Mozarabic: [script needed] (qárriči)
  • → Catalan: càrritx
• Vulgar Latin: *cariceus
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: carriço
    • Galician: carrizo
    • Portuguese: carriço
  • Spanish: carrizo
• → English: carex
• → French: carex
• → Translingual: Carex

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.
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cārex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 100

1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
2. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cors”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies