carabus

From Latin carabus. The entomological sense is borrowed from translingual Carabus, from the same Latin source.

carabus (plural carabuses or carabi)

1. (historical) An ancient small boat made of wickerwork covered with a hide or leather.
2. (entomology) A ground beetle of the genus Carabus.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos).

cārabus m (genitive cārabī); second declension

1. crab, crayfish
2. kind of ship

Second-declension noun.

• Old Catalan: càreu
  • Catalan: caro

• “carabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "carabus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “carabus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carabus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin