carre

From the verb carrer. Old French querre was inherited from Latin quadrus.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: carrent, carres

carre f (plural carres)

1. stature
2. angle
3. the side of a sword blade
4. skating figure
5. (ski) edge (of a ski)

• carrer
• carreau
• équerre
• faute de carre (“erreur (in one's life, etc.)”)

carre

1. inflection of carrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “carre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• racer

carre

1. vocative singular of carrus

• car, kerre

From Anglo-Norman carre, from Latin carra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar(ə)/

carre (plural carres)

1. cart, wagon

• English: car (see there for further descendants)
• Yola: car

• “carre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin carra, neuter plural of carrus. Compare French char, from Old French.

carre oblique singular, f (oblique plural carres, nominative singular carre, nominative plural carres)

1. (Anglo-Norman) cart (wheeled vehicle)
   • c. 1150, author unknown, La Chanson de Roland:

     Vos li durrez urs e leons e chens,
     Set cenz camelz e mil hosturs muers,
     D’or e d’argent.IIII.C. muls cargez,
     Cinquante carre, qu’en ferat carier :

     You will give him bears, lions and dogs
     Seven hundred camels and a thousand [?]
     Of gold and of silver, load 400 mules
     50 carts, [?]

• char m

• → Middle English: carre, car, kerre
  • English: car (see there for further descendants)
  • Yola: car

• carne
• carri (Campidanese)

From Latin carnem, accusative form of carō (“flesh”, “meat”), from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarre/

carre f (plural carres)

1. meat, flesh

   Synonym: petza