carcer

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

prisión

cárcel

calabozo

ergástula

celda

penitenciaría

celda de castigo

chirona

mazmorra

presidio

penalti

tiro penal

penalti córner

jaula

preso

cédula

Sinónimos

phylaca

prisonium

claustrum

robur

Traducciones

prison

Gefängnis

prison

prigione

prisão

gevangenis

jail

cell

cárcere

carcere

kerker

cadeia

calabós

calabouço

μπουντρούμι

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[ˈkar.kɛr]

Etimología (Inglés)

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.