carnet

English

(admission pass) a carnet

Etymology

From French carnet (“notebook”), from Middle French quernet (“group of four sheets”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).neɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

carnet (plural carnets)

1. A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.

   Rather than buy each ticket individually, you can buy a carnet of ten tickets for a lower price.

2. (law) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
   • 2003, Jim Hudgens et al., The Rough Guide to West Africa‎^[1], →ISBN, page 20:

     If you plan to sell your car, of course, a carnet is the last thing you need: if the vehicle isn't correctly stamped in and out of each country you'll lose your deposit.

3. An admission pass.

Translations

a ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets

• Czech: blok (cs) m (lístků), celní doklad pro vozidlo
• Polish: karnet (pl) m
• Russian: абонемент (ru) m (abonement)

Further reading

• carnet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Carnet (pass permit) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Canter, Cretan, canter, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French carnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [kərˈne̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kərˈnət]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [kərˈnɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈnet]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [karˈnet]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. identification card

   carnet de conduir ― driving license

Further reading

• “carnet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

French

Etymology

From a diminutive of Old French quaern, quaer. Equivalent to cahier +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.nɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophone: carnets

Noun

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. booklet, notebook

Derived terms

• carnet à souches
• carnet d'adresses
• carnet d'agent de change
• carnet de bal
• carnet de bord
• carnet de chèques
• carnet de commandes
• carnet de correspondance
• carnet de courtier
• carnet de mariage
• carnet de notes
• carnet de quittances de loyer
• carnet de rendez-vous
• carnet de route
• carnet de santé
• carnet de textes
• carnet de timbres
• carnet de vaccination
• carnet de vol
• carnet d'échéance
• carnet mondain
• Carnet Web

Descendants

• → Catalan: carnet
• → English: carnet
• → Haitian Creole: kanè
• → Portuguese: carnê
• → Polish: karnet
• → Romanian: carnet n
• → Spanish: carné
• → Turkish: karne

Further reading

• “carnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• centra, cernât, créant, encrât, tancer, trance

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French carnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karˈnet/

Noun

carnet n (plural carnete)

1. notebook
2. (informal) driving license

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	carnet	carnetul	carnete	carnetele
genitive-dative	carnet	carnetului	carnete	carnetelor
vocative	carnetule		carnetelor

Further reading

• “carnet”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈnet/ [kaɾˈnet̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: car‧net

Noun

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. alternative form of carné

Derived terms

• carnetizar

Further reading

• “carnet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025