English → Latin
“dray, dray-cart” in Latin
carrusa wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart; a cartload, a wagonload; carsarrācumcart, wagonplaustrumwagon, carttrahaa kind of threshing instrument in form of a jagged board pulled by beasts, drag
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dray, dray-cart
carrus or carrum (four-wheeled): sarracum (according to Quintilian, a sordidum nomen): plaustrum (general term for waggon, etc.): traha (without wheels).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dray, dray-cart?
- The usual Latin words for “dray, dray-cart” are carrus, sarrācum, plaustrum; also traha. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.