carcer

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (declension-3, masculine) prison, jail
2. (declension-3, masculine) jailbird
3. (declension-3, masculine) traps (barriers at start of a horse race)
4. (declension-3, masculine) commencement, beginning
5. (declension-3, masculine) starting gate

Sinonieme

phylaca

prisonium

claustrum

robur

Vertalings

prison

Gefängnis

prigione

prison

gevangenis

prisão

jail

cell

cárcere

prisión

carcere

kerker

cadeia

calabós

calabouço

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈkar.kɛr]

Etimologie (Engels)

Derived from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of cancer. Cognate with circus, curvus, crux, crīnis, crispus, English ring. It is not known how the noun shifted to the third declension.