carex

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English

Carex halleriana
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Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

  1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

  1. sedge
    Synonym: ulva

Declension

  • Third-declension noun.
Case Singular Plural
Nominative cārex cāricēs
Genitive cāricis cāricum
Dative cāricī cāricibus
Accusative cāricem cāricēs
Ablative cārice cāricibus
Vocative cārex cāricēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: carç
  • Italian: carice
  • Venetian: caréto
  • Mozarabic: (qárriči)
  • Vulgar Latin: *cariceus
  • → 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
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