carte
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑː(ɹ)t/
- Homophone: cart
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.
Noun
carte (plural cartes)
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- (dated) A visiting card.
- 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, The fortunes of Cyril Denham (page 258)
- "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is."
- 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, The fortunes of Cyril Denham (page 258)
- (historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
- 2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle
- Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.
- 2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle
- (Scotland, dated) A playing card.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939:
- We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
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Noun
carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)
- (fencing) Alternative form of quarte
See also
- carte anglaise
References
- carte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Cater, Trace, acter, caret, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁt/
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Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
- card
- chart; map
- menu, bill of fare
Derived terms
- à la carte
- brouiller les cartes
- carte à jouer
- carte bancaire
- carte blanche
- carte bleue
- carte de crédit
- carte de débit
- carte d'embarquement
- carte de visite
- carte d'identité
- carte heuristique
- carte mémoire
- carte mentale
- carte mère
- carte postale
- carte routière
- carte SIM
- carte soleil
- carte verte
- carte vierge
- château de cartes
- faire une carte de France
- jeu de cartes
- jouer cartes sur table
- jouer la carte de
- rebattre les cartes
- taper la carte
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kat
- → Dutch: kaart
- Afrikaans: kaart
- Negerhollands: kaert
- →? Arawak: kartang
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kártá
- → Indonesian: kartu
- → Papiamentu: karchi (from the diminutive)
- → Sranan Tongo: karta
- → Aukan: kaita
- → Caribbean Javanese: kartah, kar, kertu
- → Saramaccan: káíta
- → Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
- → English: carte
- → Khmer: កាត (kaat)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: carte
- → Persian: کارت (kârt)
- → Turkish: kart
- → Wolof: kart
Further reading
- “carte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkar.te/
- Rhymes: -arte
- Hyphenation: càr‧te
Noun
carte f pl
- plural of carta
Anagrams
- -crate, Creta, certa, cetra, creta, tacer, trace
Norman
Etymology
From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
- (Jersey, Guernsey) card
- (Jersey, nautical) chart
Derived terms
- carte dé crédit
- carte dé débit
- carte dé mémouaithe
- carte dé Noué
- carte d'Valentinne
- carte postale
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French carte (“card, chart”), from Latin charta (“paper, poem”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, book”), possibly from either χαράσσω (kharássō, “I scratch, inscribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to scratch”) or from Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 (ḥrṭyt, “something written”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʈ/, /kaʁt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aʈ, -aʁt, -art
- Hyphenation: carte
- Homophone: kart
Noun
carte m (definite singular carten, indefinite plural carter, definite plural cartene)
- Only used in à la carte (“à la carte”)
- Only used in a la carte (“a la carte”)
- Only used in à la carte-meny (“à la carte menu”)
- Only used in a la carte-meny (“a la carte menu”)
- Only used in à la carte-servering (“à la carte serving”)
- Only used in a la carte-servering (“a la carte serving”)
- Only used in carte blanche (“carte blanche”)
Anagrams
- cerat, racet
Old English
Etymology
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρτης (khártēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑr.te/, [ˈkɑrˠ.te]
Noun
carte f
- paper, piece of paper
- document, deed
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | carte | cartan |
| accusative | cartan | cartan |
| genitive | cartan | cartena |
| dative | cartan | cartum |
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “carte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “carte”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Old French
Noun
carte f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)
- Alternative form of chartre
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈkah.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈkaχ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaɻ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: car‧te
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English kart.[1]
Alternative forms
- kart
Noun
carte m (plural cartes)
- kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)
- Synonym: kart
Derived terms
- cartódromo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
carte
- inflection of cartar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
References
- “carte” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Further reading
- “carte” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “carte” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “carte” in Dicionário inFormal.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkar.te/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: car‧te
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin charta, possibly through a hypothetical earlier Romanian intermediate form *cartă, and created from its plural (thus deriving its meaning from "many papers"). Ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartă, a borrowing, as well as hartă, from Greek, and hârtie, from Greek and South Slavic.
Noun
carte f (plural cărți)
- book
- a citi o carte ― to read a book
- card
- jocuri de cărți ― card games
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (o) carte | cartea | (niște) cărți | cărțile |
| genitive/dative | (unei) cărți | cărții | (unor) cărți | cărților |
| vocative | carte, carteo | cărților | ||
Related terms
- cărturar
See also
- card
- hârtie
Noun
carte f pl
- plural of cartă