carcer

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See also: càrcer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of cancer. Cognate with circus, curvus, crux, crīnis, crispus, English ring. It is not known how the noun shifted to the third declension.

Pronunciation

Noun

carcer m (genitive carceris); third declension

  1. prison, jail
    Synonyms: tenebrae, (Mediaeval) carcellāria
  2. jailbird
  3. traps (barriers at start of a horse race)
  4. commencement, beginning
  5. starting gate
    Ad carceres a calce revocari.
    To be called back from the finish line to the starting gates.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carcer carcerēs
Genitive carceris carcerum
Dative carcerī carceribus
Accusative carcerem carcerēs
Ablative carcere carceribus
Vocative carcer carcerēs

Derived terms

Descendants


References

  • “carcer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “carcer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carcer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to throw some one into prison: in carcerem conicere aliquem
  • “carcer”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “carcer”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • “carcer”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin carcer, carcerem.

Pronunciation

Noun

carcer f

  1. jail, prison

Descendants

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