Your car is a chariot is a cart — all from Gaulish karros, a Celtic wagon word the Romans borrowed and humanity has been riding for two thousand years.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing. By extension, any stately or ceremonial vehicle.
From Old French chariot (augmentative of char, 'cart, wagon'), from Latin carrus (wheeled vehicle), from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (wagon), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sos (running, vehicle) Key roots: carrus (Latin (from Gaulish): "wheeled vehicle"), *ḱr̥sos (Proto-Indo-European: "running, vehicle").
Chariot, car, carry, cargo, career, and carpenter all trace to the same Gaulish root — the Celtic word for a wheeled vehicle that the Romans adopted as carrus. The chariot revolutionized warfare around 2000 BCE when spoked wheels (lighter than solid wheels) made high-speed combat vehicles possible. The English word "car" is a direct descendant: from chariot to carriage to motor car, the Gaulish karros has been naming