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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carpentum n (genitive carpentī); second declension
- carriage (two-wheeled); chariot
- Synonyms: currus, vehiculum
- wagon, cart
- barouche
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “carpentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carpentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carpentum 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)
- carpentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “carpentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “carpentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin