Etymology

carrack

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Today it means: A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast. Full definition →

French caraque ← Latin carraca ← Arabic قَرَاقِير
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromقَرَاقِير
  2. Latin · derived fromcarrus“wagon”
  3. Latin · derived fromcarraca
  4. French · derived fromcaraque
  5. English todaycarrack

From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).

Words from the same roots

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