carbo

See also: Carbo, carbó, and carbo-

English

Etymology

Clipping of carbohydrate.

Noun

carbo (plural carbos)

  1. (informal) carbohydrate
    • 2002, Jennifer Hanson, The Real Freshman Handbook:
      Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.

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Latin

Etymology

  • Unsure. The status of Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (heat”, “fire”, also “to burn) is uncertain.[1] Probably related to Old English heorþ (hearth), Old Norse hyrr (fire), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, coal), Old High German harsta (roasting), Russian курить (kuritʹ, to smoke, burn, fumigate) and церен (ceren, brazier), Old Church Slavonic курити (kuriti, to smoke) and крада (krada, hearth, fireplace), Lithuanian kurti̇̀ (to heat), karštas (hot) and krosnis (oven), Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, burnt, black) and कूडयति (kūḍayati, singes), and maybe Latin cremāre (to burn).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    carbō m (genitive carbōnis); third declension

    1. charcoal, coal

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative carbō carbōnēs
    genitive carbōnis carbōnum
    dative carbōnī carbōnibus
    accusative carbōnem carbōnēs
    ablative carbōne carbōnibus
    vocative carbō carbōnēs

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    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “carbō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 91-2

    Further reading

    • carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • carbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "carbo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • carbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • carbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • carbo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray