carex

See also: Carex

English

Carex halleriana

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”). See also Sanskrit कषति (kaṣati, “scratches, rubs”), Middle Low German harsch (“hairy”), Russian короста (korosta, “scab”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.reks/, [ˈkaː.rɛks]

Noun

cārex f (genitive cāricis); third declension

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cārex	cāricēs
Genitive	cāricis	cāricum
Dative	cāricī	cāricibus
Accusative	cāricem	cāricēs
Ablative	cārice	cāricibus
Vocative	cārex	cāricēs

Descendants

English: carex
French: carex
Galician: carrizo
Italian: carice
Spanish: carrizo
Translingual: Carex

References

carex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
carex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
carex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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