carta
See also: Carta, cárta, and cartă
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun
carta f (plural cartes)
- letter (written message)
- playing card (one of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card)
- map
Synonyms
- (playing card): baraxa
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.tə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈkar.tə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.ta/
Audio (file)
Noun
carta f (plural cartes)
- letter, card (which one writes to someone)
- menu
Derived terms
- cartell
- carter
- cartera
- joc de cartes
See also
- targeta
Further reading
- “carta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “carta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “carta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Corsican
Etymology
From Latin charta, borrowed from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognates include Italian carta and Spanish carta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkarta/
- (Cismontane) IPA(key): [ˈkærta]
- (Ultramontane) IPA(key): [ˈkarta]
- Hyphenation: car‧ta
- Rhymes: -arta
Noun
carta f (plural carte)
- card
- map
References
- “carta, cartula” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.ta/
- Homophones: cartas, cartât
Verb
carta
- third-person singular past historic of carter
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaɾtɐ]
Noun
carta f (plural cartas)
- letter, correspondence
- (archaic) charter; contract
- playing card
- identification card
- map
- menu
Derived terms
- carteira
- carteiro
- descartar
- encartar
References
- “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “carta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “carta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “carta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Irish
Participle
carta
- past participle of cart
Noun
carta
- genitive singular of cartadh
Verb
carta
- analytic present subjunctive of cart
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| carta | charta | gcarta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Italian
Etymology
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkar.ta/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -arta
- Hyphenation: càr‧ta
Noun
carta f (plural carte, diminutive cartìna, pejorative cartàccia)
- paper (the material)
- map
- Synonyms: carta geografica, mappa, pianta
- menu
- Synonym: menu
- card
Related terms
- aeroplanino di carta
- carta assorbente
- carta carbone
- cartaccia
- cartaceo
- carta da gioco
- carta da lettere
- carta da parati
- carta dei vini
- carta di credito
- carta d'identità
- carta igienica
- cartaio
- carta millimetrata
- cartapesta
- carta SIM
- carta vetrata
- carteggio
- cartella
- cartello
- cartiera, cartificio
- cartina
- cartoccio
- cartografia
- cartoleria
- cartolina
- cartomanzia
- cartone
- cartotecnica
- cartuccia
- incartare
- scartare
Descendants
- → Cimbrian: karta, kart
- → Greek: κάρτα (kárta)
- → Hungarian: kártya
- → Maltese: karta
Further reading
carta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Etymology
See charta
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]
Noun
carta f (genitive cartae); first declension
- papyrus (sheet of)
- letter etc
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | carta | cartae |
| Genitive | cartae | cartārum |
| Dative | cartae | cartīs |
| Accusative | cartam | cartās |
| Ablative | cartā | cartīs |
| Vocative | carta | cartae |
References
- carta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”). Doublet of cartaz.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈkah.tɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈkaχ.tɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaɻ.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.tɐ/
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtɐ, (Brazil) -aʁtɐ
- Hyphenation: car‧ta
Noun
carta f (plural cartas)
- letter (written message)
- Synonyms: epístola, missiva, correspondência
- chart, map (visual representation of an area)
- Synonym: mapa
- (card games) playing card (any of the 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play games)
- (law) charter (document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges)
- (Portugal, São Paulo) driver's license (an official personal document that permits driving a vehicle)
- Synonyms: carta de condução, (Brazil) carteira, (Brazil) carteira de motorista
Derived terms
- carta de alforria
- carta de condução
- carta constitucional
- carta de crédito
Descendants
- Papiamentu: karta (with Spanish)
- → Japanese: カルタ (karuta)
- → Swahili: karata
See also
| Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ás | dois, duque | três, terno | quatro, quadra | cinco, quina | seis, sena | sete, bisca, manilha |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| oito | nove | dez | valete | dama | rei | jóquer, coringa, curinga |
Romanian
Noun
carta f
- definite singular of cartă
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus”). Cognate with English card and chart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɾta/ [ˈkaɾ.t̪a]
Audio (Latin America) (file) - Rhymes: -aɾta
- Syllabification: car‧ta
Noun
carta f (plural cartas)
- letter (document)
- map
- Synonym: mapa
- menu (list of dishes in a restaurant)
- Synonym: menú
- playing card
Derived terms
- abrecartas
- a la carta
- carta abierta
- carta al director
- carta amorosa
- carta blanca
- carta bomba
- carta de amor
- carta de derechos
- carta de presentación
- carta de vinos
- Carta Magna
- carta reversal
- carta segura
- cartilla
- cartón
- descartar
- echar las cartas
- entre gitanos no nos leemos las cartas
- jugar a las cartas
- jugárselo todo a una carta
- mesa de cartas
- no saber a qué carta quedarse
- tomar cartas en el asunto
Related terms
- cartel
- cartografía
Descendants
- Papiamentu: karta (with Portuguese)
- Tagalog: kalatas
Further reading
- “carta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- catar
- traca