Carcaso

• Carcasum

Possibly from the pre-Indo-European root *kar "stone," found in other Celtic placenames (compare Welsh carreg (“stone”)), and Gaulish kassanos (“oak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.ka.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.ka.s̬o]

Carcasō f sg (genitive Carcasōnis); third declension

1. a town in Gallia Narbonensis, in the territory of the Tectosages, in modern Aude department, Occitania, France; modern Carcassonne

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Carcaso”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Carcaso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu en France, Paris, Librairie Guénégaud, 1979 (→ISBN), p. 147a