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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from *ḱers- (“to run”), the same root of currō. Doublet of carrus.
Pronunciation
Noun
currus m (genitive currūs); fourth declension
- chariot, car
- Synonyms: carpentum, vehiculum
- currum agere ― to drive a chariot
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.498–499:
- quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs
iungit et aequoreās sicca pererrat aquās- And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves.
(See Ceres (mythology).)
- wagon, wain
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “currus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- currus 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)
- currus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drive: curru vehi, in rheda (Mil. 21. 55)
- “currus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “currus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin