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(Ancient Rome) A street that ran north-south, in an Ancient Roman town or city
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “cardo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
“cardo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“cardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“cardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Uncertain. Traditionally related to Ancient Greekκράδη(krádē, “twig, spray; swing, crane in the drama”), but unlikely as the concordant sense of swing is metaphorical and likely too recent. Or from Proto-Indo-European*(s)kerd-(“to move, sway, swing, jump”) and so cognate with Englishhar(“hinge”). Compare in any case Old High Germanscerdo(“hinge”).
Prīma diēs tibi, Carnā, datur. dea cardinis haec est: nūmine clausa aperit, claudit aperta suō.
The first day is being given to you, Carna. This is the goddess of the hinge: by her divine power she opens the closed, closes the opened. (Ovid conflates the June festival of the goddess Carna with the mythology of Cardea; see also Janus and Hinge.)
“cardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cardo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cardo 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)
cardo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
“cardo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cardo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin