charrus
English
Noun
charrus (plural charruses)
- Alternative form of carrus
Latin
Noun
charrus m (genitive charrī); second declension
- Alternative form of carrus (“English unit of weight”)
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1, p. 168:
- Another element of weight is the charrus, carecta, or plaustrata of lead. This quantity contained thrity fontinelli, fotmael, pedes, or pigs. Each pes contained five petrae of fourteen pounds each, and therefore the pes was 70 avoirdupois pounds and the charrus 2100 lbs.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1, p. 168:
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | charrus | charrī |
| Genitive | charrī | charrōrum |
| Dative | charrō | charrīs |
| Accusative | charrum | charrōs |
| Ablative | charrō | charrīs |
| Vocative | charre | charrī |
References
- charrus 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)