currus.
chariot, light horse vehicle; triumphal chariot; triumph; wheels on plow; cart;
Meaning & usage
chariot, car (more often two-wheeled cars (biga) used in battle and in racing)
currum agere
wagon, wain
ship, boat
the horses drawing a chariot, a team, span
a pair of small wheels by which the beam of a plough was supported and guided
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from the root *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of carrus and currō (“to run”).
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