carte

See also: Carte and carté

English

Etymology

French. See card.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Noun

carte (plural cartes)

1. A bill of fare; a menu.
2. (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."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• Trace, acter, caret, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace

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French

Etymology

From Latin charta.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /kaʁt/

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

1. card
2. chart; map
3. menu

Anagrams

• créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé

Further reading

• “carte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of carta

Anagrams

• certa, cetra, creta, Creta

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) card
2. (Jersey, nautical) chart

Derived terms

Terms derived from carte

• carte dé crédit
• carte dé débit

• carte dé mémouaithe
• carte dé Noué

• carte d'Valentinne
• carte postale

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Old French

Noun

carte f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)

1. Alternative form of chartre

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkar.te]

Etymology 1

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).

Noun

carte f (plural cărți)

1. book
2. card

Declension

declension of carte

	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

Etymology 2

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of cartă