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carrack

Meaninga cart, wagon

Common meaning: a large merchant ship

Journey through time

  1. Latincarrus‘a car’source
  2. Late Latinmeaning shiftsa car → a ship of burdencarrica‘a ship of burden’source
  3. Old Frenchcarraquesource
  4. Middle Englishcarackesource
  5. Englishcarrack‘a large merchant ship’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin carrus ‘a cart, wagon’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry carrus, p. 104 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry CAREER, p. 94 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • carrus Latin “a four-wheeled cart”

Related words

carcareercarriagechargechariot

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