English

Noun

carbo ‎(plural carbos)

1. (informal) carbohydrate

Anagrams

• carob, COBRA, cobra, CORBA

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ker- ‎(“to burn”), see also 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 курйо ‎(kurйo, “to smoke”) and крада ‎(krada, “hearth, fireplace”), Lithuanian kuriu ‎(“to heat”), karstas ‎(“hot”) and krosnis ‎(“oven”), Sanskrit कृष्ण ‎(kṛṣṇa, “burnt, black”) and कूडयति ‎(kūḍayati, “singes”), Latin cremāre ‎(“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.boː/

Noun

carbō m ‎(genitive carbōnis); third declension

1. charcoal, coal

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• carbōnārius
• carbōnēscō
• carbunculus

Related terms

• carbunculātiō
• carbunculō
• carbunculōsus

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “carbo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray