carte
English
Pronunciation
- 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.
Etymology 2
Noun
carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.
Pronunciation
Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kat
- → Dutch: kaart
- → Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
- → English: carte
- → Khmer: កាត (kaat)
- → 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
Italian
Noun
carte f pl
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
Derived terms
Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology
Noun
carte f
Declension
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “carte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old French
Noun
carte oblique singular, f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)
- Alternative form of chartre
Romanian
Pronunciation
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.
Noun
carte f (plural cărți)
Declension
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
carte f pl
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