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From Proto-Italic*karzō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kers-(“to comb wool”), extended from *(s)ker-(“to cut”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti(“combs, cards”), Latvian kā̀rst(“combs, cards”), Old High German scerran(“to scratch”). Varro falsely connects this with careō, possibly because the word had already gone extinct in his time, with the only reminiscence being carmen(“card for flax or wool”) which was the evident derivational base of the rather common carminō(“I card”).
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carrō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
(Peru,Ecuador, by extension) a bus or minivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another (while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles)