carex

See also: Carex

English
Carex halleriana

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

  1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Alternative forms
  • cārix

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to carrō (“I card”); see English card (sense 2).[1] However, compare Welsh cors (“reeds, bog”), Irish corrach (“marsh, bog”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

  1. sedge
    Synonym: ulva

Declension
  • Third-declension noun.
Case Singular Plural
Nominative cārex cāricēs
Genitive cāricis cāricum
Dative cāricī cāricibus
Accusative cāricem cāricēs
Ablative cārice cāricibus
Vocative cārex cāricēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: carç
  • Italian: carice
  • Venetian: caréto
  • Mozarabic: [script needed] (qárriči)
  • Vulgar Latin: *cariceus
  • → English: carex
  • → French: carex
  • → Translingual: Carex

References
  • “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “carex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cārex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 100
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  2. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cors”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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