Noun: currus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Fourth
Nominative
| Singular | currus |
| Plural | currūs |
Genitive
| Singular | currūs |
| Plural | curruum |
Dative
| Singular | curruī |
| Plural | curribus |
Accusative
| Singular | currum |
| Plural | currūs |
Ablative
| Singular | currū |
| Plural | curribus |
Vocative
| Singular | currus |
| Plural | currūs |
Sample Sentences
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currum agere (to drive a chariot)
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quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs (And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to [her] chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves.
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(See Ceres (mythology).)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.498–499]
Nouns inflected like currus
frūctus,
scītus,
sessus,
saltus,
socrus,
accubitus,
flūctus,
septemvirātus,
vīctus,
flū̆xus,
olfactus,
pugilātus,
perfectus,
bālātus,
pāstus,
īnfectus,
subrīsus,
sēnsus,
īnflūxus,
arcessītus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from the root *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of carrus and currō (“to run”).
Verbs referencing "currus"
Italian Nouns
curro, Catalan Nouns
carril, Portuguese Nouns
carril, Spanish Nouns
corro, English Nouns
horse, Galician Nouns
curral, Catalan Nouns
corró.
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