caretă

See also: careta, caretã, and caréta

Romanian

Alternative forms

• carâtă — obsolete or regional

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian каре́та (karéta), itself from Polish kareta, from Italian carretta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈre.tə/
• Rhymes: -etə
• Hyphenation: ca‧re‧tă

Noun

caretă f (plural carete)

1. coach (four-wheeled closed carriage)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	caretă	careta		carete	caretele
genitive-dative	carete	caretei		carete	caretelor
vocative	caretă, careto			caretelor

Derived terms

• caretaș

Related terms

• car
• căruță

Further reading

• “caretă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025