carter
See also: Carter, càrter, cárter, and čarter
English
Etymology
From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːtə/
Audio (southern England) (file) - Homophone: Carter
- Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: cart‧er
Noun
carter (plural carters)
- A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
- They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
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- A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
Coordinate terms
- horse-drawn
- oxcart
Derived terms
- cane carter
- carterly
- under-carter
Translations
person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart
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Anagrams
- Crater, arrect, crater, tracer
Catalan
Etymology
carta + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kəɾˈte/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kərˈte/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kaɾˈteɾ/
Noun
carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera)
- postman, letter carrier
- (card games) reserve (remaining cards not dealt out)
Further reading
- “carter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.tɛʁ/
Noun
carter m (plural carters)
- housing (of an engine)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
carter
- to verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card
Conjugation
Conjugation of carter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | carter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cartant /kaʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | carté /kaʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | carte /kaʁt/ | cartes /kaʁt/ | carte /kaʁt/ | cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ | cartez /kaʁ.te/ | cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect | cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ | cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ | cartait /kaʁ.tɛ/ | cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ | cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ | cartaient /kaʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cartai /kaʁ.te/ | cartas /kaʁ.ta/ | carta /kaʁ.ta/ | cartâmes /kaʁ.tam/ | cartâtes /kaʁ.tat/ | cartèrent /kaʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | carterai /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ | carteras /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ | cartera /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ | carterons /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | carterez /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ | carteront /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | carterait /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | carterions /kaʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | carteriez /kaʁ.tə.ʁje/ | carteraient /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | carte /kaʁt/ | cartes /kaʁt/ | carte /kaʁt/ | cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ | cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ | cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | cartasse /kaʁ.tas/ | cartasses /kaʁ.tas/ | cartât /kaʁ.ta/ | cartassions /kaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | cartassiez /kaʁ.ta.sje/ | cartassent /kaʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | carte /kaʁt/ | — | cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ | cartez /kaʁ.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “carter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Gallo
Etymology
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Verb
carter
- (transitive) to fold (laundry)
Indonesian
Etymology
From English charter, from Middle English charter, chartre, from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃartər]
- Hyphenation: car‧têr
- Rhymes: -tər, -ər, -r
Verb
carter
- to charter: to lease or hire something by charter.
- Synonym: sewa
Derived terms
- carteran
- mencarter
- pencarter
- pencarteran
Further reading
- “carter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Noun
carter m (invariable)
- chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
- oil sump (in a car)
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʈər/, /kaʁtər/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ər
- Hyphenation: cart‧er
- Homophone: karter
Noun
carter m
- indefinite plural of carte
Anagrams
- tracer