carter

See also: Carter, cárter, and čarter

English

Etymology

From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart +‎ -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtə/
• Homophone: Carter
• Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cart‧er

Noun

carter (plural carters)

1. A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:

     They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.

2. A fish, the whiff or Marysole.

Coordinate terms

• horse-drawn
• oxcart

Derived terms

• carterly

Translations

person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart

• Finnish: hevoskuski
• French: charretier (fr) m
• German: Fuhrmann (de) m Wagner (de) m
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• Hungarian: szekeres
• Portuguese: carreteiro (pt) m
• Swedish: körkarl c, kusk (sv) c

Anagrams

• Crater, arrect, crater, tracer

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Catalan

Etymology

carta +‎ -er.

Noun

carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera)

1. postman

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French

Noun

carter m (plural carters)

1. housing (of an engine)

Verb

carter

1. To verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card

Conjugation

Conjugation of carter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	carter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cartant /kaʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		carté /kaʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	carte /kaʁt/	cartes /kaʁt/	carte /kaʁt/	cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/	cartez /kaʁ.te/	cartent /kaʁt/
	imperfect	cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartait /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/	cartiez /kaʁ.tje/	cartaient /kaʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	cartai /kaʁ.te/	cartas /kaʁ.ta/	carta /kaʁ.ta/	cartâmes /kaʁ.tam/	cartâtes /kaʁ.tat/	cartèrent /kaʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	carterai /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/	carteras /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/	cartera /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/	carterons /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	carterez /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/	carteront /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterait /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterions /kaʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	carteriez /kaʁ.tə.ʁje/	carteraient /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	carte /kaʁt/	cartes /kaʁt/	carte /kaʁt/	cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/	cartiez /kaʁ.tje/	cartent /kaʁt/
	imperfect2	cartasse /kaʁ.tas/	cartasses /kaʁ.tas/	cartât /kaʁ.ta/	cartassions /kaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	cartassiez /kaʁ.ta.sje/	cartassent /kaʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	carte /kaʁt/	—	cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/	cartez /kaʁ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Gallo

Etymology

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Verb

carter

1. (transitive) to fold (laundry)

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Italian

Noun

carter m (uncountable)

1. chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
2. oil sump (in a car)