charta

See also: Charta

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxarta]
• Rhymes: -arta
• Hyphenation: char‧ta

Noun

charta f

1. charter, an important document declaring political principles or rights

Declension

Declension of charta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	charta	charty
genitive	charty	chart
dative	chartě	chartám
accusative	chartu	charty
vocative	charto	charty
locative	chartě	chartách
instrumental	chartou	chartami

Derived terms

• chartista
• chartistický
• chartistka

 

Further reading

• charta in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• charta in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• charta in Internetová jazyková příručka

Anagrams

• chátra

Irish

Noun

charta

1. Lenited form of carta.

Latin

Alternative forms

• chartus
• carta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰar.ta/, [ˈkʰärt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]

Noun

charta f (genitive chartae); first declension

1. papyrus, paper
2. poem, a writing
3. (Medieval Latin) map
4. the papyrus plant

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	charta	chartae
Genitive	chartae	chartārum
Dative	chartae	chartīs
Accusative	chartam	chartās
Ablative	chartā	chartīs
Vocative	charta	chartae

Derived terms

• chartula
• ensiculus chartōrum

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: carti
  • Romanian: carte
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: carta
  • Romagnol: chêrta (Ville Unite)
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: carta
  • Italian: carta (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: carta
• Old Occitan: carta
  • Catalan: carta
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: cjarte
  • Romansch: charta
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: carta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: carta
    • Galician: carta
    • Portuguese: carta (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: carta (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings

• → Albanian: kartë
• → Proto-Brythonic:
  • Breton: kartenn
  • Cornish: carten
  • Welsh: carden
• → Czech: charta
• → German: Charta
• → Kashubian: kôrta
• → Livonian: kōrtõz
• → Old French: carte
  • French: carte (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: carte
  • → Breton: karta
  • → Irish: cárta
  • → Middle English: carde
    • English: card (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: cairt
  • → Middle High German: karte
    • German: Karte (see there for further descendants)
    • Luxembourgish: Kaart
    • Mòcheno: kòrt
    • Yiddish: קאָרט‎ (kort)
  • → Middle Low German: kort
    • Plautdietsch: Koat
    • → Old Norse: kort
      • Danish: kort
        • → Swedish: kort
          • → Finnish: kortti
      • Faroese: kort
      • Icelandic: kort
      • Norwegian Bokmål: kort
      • Swedish: karta, charta
        • → Finnish: kartta
          • → Northern Sami: gárta
• → Old English: carte
  • Middle English: carte
• → Old High German: kerza, charza (or from cērāta)
  • Middle High German: kerze
    • Cimbrian: khéertza
    • German: Kerze
    • Luxembourgish: Käerz
  • → Middle Dutch: kerse (see there for further descendants)
• →⇒ Latin: chartula
  • Old French: chartre (see there for further descendants)

References

• “charta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “charta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• charta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• charta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “charta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• charta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “charta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxarta/

Noun

charta

1. inflection of chart:
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative dual

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.ta/
• Rhymes: -arta
• Syllabification: char‧ta

Noun

charta m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of chart

Romansch

Etymology

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

Noun

charta f (plural chartas)

1. letter, card

Swedish

Noun

charta

1. Obsolete spelling of karta