chartre
English
Noun
chartre (plural chartres)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French chartre, earlier cartre, inherited from Latin carcer, carcerem (“prison”).
Noun
chartre f (plural chartres)
- (obsolete) prison; place of safekeeping
Usage notes
Not to be confused with charte.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chartre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin chartula (for a similar phonetic development, see Old French epistre (Modern French épître), from Latin epistula), or from charta with an unetymological r. Ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).
Noun
chartre oblique singular, f (oblique plural chartres, nominative singular chartre, nominative plural chartres)
Descendants
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