Masculine

carro

Meaning

  1. (masculine) cart
  2. (Latin-America, masculine) car, automobile (used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico)
  3. (Ecuador, Peru, broadly, masculine) a bus or minivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another (while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles)
  4. (Latin-America, masculine) train car
  5. (masculine, slang) cocaine paste

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
ca‧rro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkaro/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish carro, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

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