HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of carrus | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈkar.rʊs]

Definitions

  1. a wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart
  2. a cartload, a wagonload
  3. car
    New-Latin, declension-2, masculine
  4. a load, an English unit of weight
    Medieval-Latin, declension-2, masculine

Equivalents

English car load

Examples

“Saccus lane debet ponderare viginti & octo petras & solebat ponderare unam summam frumenti & ponderat sextam partem unius carri de plumbo”

The sack of wool ought to weigh twenty & eight stone & is accustomed to weigh one quarter of wheat & weights the sixth part of one cartload of lead.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See all B1 Latina words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See carrus used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free