carruca
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Medieval Latin carrūca.
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.
Hypernyms
- moldboard plow, turnplow
Related terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
carruca f (plural carruche)
Derived terms
Alternative forms
Etymology
From carrus, probably from Transalpine Gaulish.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /karˈruː.ka/, [kärˈruːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /karˈru.ka/, [kärˈruːkä]
Noun
carrūca f (genitive carrūcae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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