English word carousel comes from Gaulish carros (Wagon.), Gaulish karros, Gaulish *karros, Gaulish karró-, Old French -ment, Old French tornoier
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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carros | Gaulish (cel-gau) | Wagon. |
karros | Gaulish (cel-gau) | |
*karros | Gaulish (cel-gau) | |
karró- | Gaulish (cel-gau) | |
-ment | Old French (fro) | Used to form nouns from verbs, usually of action or state resulting of them. Equivalent to the English -ment. Used to form adverbs, most of the time equivalent to the English -wise, -ly. |
tornoier | Old French (fro) | |
tornoiement | Old French (fro) | Tournament; an event composed of a series Medieval games used to train knights. |
carrus | Latin (lat) | (Medieval) a load, an English unit of weight. A cartload, a wagonload. A wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart. |
carro | Italian (it) | A means of transport used to carry goods; a wagon, cart, van, lorry, wain or truck. |
carosello | Italian (it) | Merry-go-round (British), carousel (US). |
tournament | English (en) | (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.. (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.. A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or [...] |
carrousel | French (fr) | |
carousel | English (en) | (internet, GUI) A visual component that displays a series of images one at a time.. A continuously revolving device for item deliveryA baggage carousel at an airport.. A merry-go-round. The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven. |