英语词汇car的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	car
词源	car. The word car comes from a Celtic word that sounded like karra to Julius Caesar, who gave the name to his chariots. Karra later was Latinized to carra. Surprisingly the word car appears first around 1300; carriage evolved from it, then horse less carriage, and, finally, back to car again as a shortened form. See automobile.
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