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English
Etymology
From Latin carabus. The entomological sense is borrowed from translingual Carabus, from the same Latin source.
Noun
carabus (plural carabuses or carabi)
- (historical) An ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.
- (entomology) A ground beetle of the genus Carabus.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos).
Noun
cārabus m (genitive cārabī); second declension
- crab, crayfish
- kind of ship
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “carabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- carabus 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)
- “carabus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “carabus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin