carbo

See also: Carbo, carbó, and carbo-

English

Etymology

Shortening of carbohydrate.

Noun

carbo (plural carbos)

  1. (informal) carbohydrate
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Latin

Etymology

Unsure. The status of Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (heat", "fire", also "to burn) is uncertain.[1] Probably related to Old English heorþ (hearth), Old Norse hyrr (fire), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, coal), Old High German harsta (roasting), Russian курить (kuritʹ, to smoke, burn, fumigate) and церен (ceren, brazier), Old Church Slavonic курити (kuriti, to smoke) and крада (krada, hearth, fireplace), Lithuanian kurtì (to heat), karštas (hot) and krosnis (oven), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, burnt, black) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, singes), and maybe Latin cremāre (to burn).

Pronunciation

Noun

carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension

  1. charcoal, coal

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carbō carbōnēs
Genitive carbōnis carbōnum
Dative carbōnī carbōnibus
Accusative carbōnem carbōnēs
Ablative carbōne carbōnibus
Vocative carbō carbōnēs

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References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “Carbō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carbo 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)
  • carbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • carbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carbo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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