Männlich

carcer

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  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

Synonyme

phylaca

prisonium

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
[ˈkar.kɛr]
Etymologie (Englisch)

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.

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