carro

Inherited from Old Catalan carro, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”). Compare Occitan carri, carro, car.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈka.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.ro]

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carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “carro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• “carro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “carro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “carro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Spanish carro.

carro (plural carros)

1. car.
2. chariot.

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro, from Latin carrus (“cart”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/ [ˈkɑ.rʊ]

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• Rhymes: -aro

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. wagon
3. car

   Teño as cortes sin molime , E vou amañar o carro.

   I have the cuts without a problem, and I'm going to fix the car.

4. cartload, wagonload
5. a load (unit of weight)
6. Big Dipper, Ursa Major

   Synonym: Carro

• “carro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin carrus. Doublet of curro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ro/
• Rhymes: -arro
• Hyphenation: càr‧ro

carro m (plural carri)

1. a wagon, cart, van, lorry or truck (a means of transport used to carry goods)

• corra

From Proto-Italic *karzō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kers- (“to comb wool”), extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Compare Lithuanian kar̃šti (“combs, cards”), Latvian kā̀rst (“combs, cards”), Old High German scerran (“to scratch”). Varro falsely connects this with careō, possibly because the word had already gone extinct in his time, with the only reminiscence being carmen (“card for flax or wool”) which was the evident derivational base of the rather common carminō (“to card”).

• carō, carriō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.ro]

carrō (present infinitive carrere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. (rare) to card (wool)
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 797:

     inter ancillās sedēre jubeās, lānam ca<r>rere.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• carmen

• “carr(i)o” in volume 3, column 497, line 64 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “carrō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95

carrō

1. dative/ablative singular of carrus

carro m (plural carros)

1. automobile, car

• altemoble

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan carri, car), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

Related to Catalan carro.

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

• carre

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

carro m

1. cart

• Catalan: carro

• Joan Coromines (1980–1991), “carro”, in Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial Edicions Catalanes

Inherited from Latin carrus, borrowed from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- + *-ós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/
• Rhymes: -aro

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. (by extension) cartload

• Fala: carru
• Galician: carro
• Portuguese: carro

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “carro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “carro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin carrus.

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “carro”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 101

From Old Galician-Portuguese carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”).

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ka.ru/
• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ru/
• Rhymes: -aʁu
• Hyphenation: car‧ro

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carro m (plural carros)

1. cart (vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal)

   Synonyms: carroça, carreta

2. car; automobile

   Synonyms: auto, automóvel, veículo

3. any “vehicle” which is drawn, such as an elevator, a cable car, or a train wagon

• → Kimbundu: dikalu

• “carro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “carro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “carro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish carro, from Latin carrus. Distant cognate with English horse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaro/ [ˈka.ro]

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Syllabification: ca‧rro

carro m (plural carros)

1. cart
2. (Latin America) car, automobile (used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico)

   Synonyms: auto, automóvil, coche, (Spain, colloquial) buga

3. (Peru, Ecuador, by extension) 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)

   Synonym: (Argentina) bondi

4. (Latin America) train car
5. (slang) cocaine paste

   Synonym: bazuco

• → Cebuano: karo
• → Tagalog: karo

• “carro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• corra
• croar