carte

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See also: Carte and carté

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.

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."
  3. (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.
  4. (Scotland, dated) A playing card.

Etymology 2

Noun

carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)

  1. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  • IPA(key): /kaʁt/
  • (file)

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

  1. card
  2. chart; map
  3. menu

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: kat
  • Dutch: kaart
  • Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
  • English: carte
  • Khmer: កាត (kaat)
  • Persian: کارت (kârt)
  • Turkish: kart
  • Wolof: kart

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Italian

Noun

carte f pl

  1. plural of carta

Anagrams


Norman

Etymology

From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, papyrus, paper).

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

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

Derived terms


Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑr.te/, [ˈkɑrˠ.te]

Etymology

From Latin charta.

Noun

carte f

  1. paper
  2. deed

Declension

References


Old French

Noun

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

  1. 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)

  1. book
    a citi o carteto read a book
  2. card
    jocuri de cărțicard games
Declension
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See also

Etymology 2

Noun

carte f pl

  1. plural of cartă