currus

From Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from *ḱers- (“to run”), the same root of currō. Doublet of carrus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊr.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkur.rus]

currus m (genitive currūs); fourth declension

1. chariot, car (more often two-wheeled cars (biga) used in battle and in racing)

   Synonyms: carpentum, vehiculum

   currum agere ― to drive a chariot

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.498–499:

     quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs
     iungit et aequoreās sicca pererrat aquās

     And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to [her] chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves.
     (See Ceres (mythology).)

2. wagon, wain
3. (by extension, poetic) ship, boat
4. (by extension, poetic) the horses drawing a chariot, a team, span
5. (by extension, mechanics) a pair of small wheels by which the beam of a plough was supported and guided

Fourth-declension noun.

• autocurrus (New Latin)
• currīlis
• curūlis, currūlis
• *currūlus (Vulgar Latin)
  • Italian: corlo,^[1] curlo^[2](Siena), >? zurlo^[3](Venice)

• → Italian: curro

• “currus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "currus", 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)
• currus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to drive: curru vehi, in rheda (Mil. 21. 55)
    
• “currus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “currus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin