chartre

English

Noun

chartre (plural chartres)

1. Obsolete form of charter.

Anagrams

• Charter, charret, charter, rechart

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chartre, earlier cartre, inherited from Latin carcerem (“prison”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

chartre f (plural chartres)

1. (obsolete) prison; place of safekeeping

Usage notes

Not to be confused with charte.

Derived terms

• chartre privée
• chartrier
• chartreux

Further reading

• “chartre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• charter, chartier, chartir, chartour, chartur, charture, chartyre

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula, diminutive of charta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃartrə/, /ˈt͡ʃartər/

Noun

chartre (plural chartres)

1. A charter (document conferring authority or privileges)
2. (by extension) A deed or other legally binding document.
3. (by extension, rare) A document or paper.
4. (figurative) The Christian promise of salvation.

Descendants

• English: charter (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: chairter

References

• “chartre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology 1

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).

Alternative forms

• carte, charte, chautre

Noun

chartre oblique singular, f (oblique plural chartres, nominative singular chartre, nominative plural chartres)

1. charter; covenant; written agreement
2. record (written account of something)
3. letter (written message)

Descendants

• Middle French: chartre, charte
  • French: charte
    • → Afar: shárti
    • → Romanian: cartă
  • → English: chart
    • → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
    • → Korean: 차트 (chateu)
    • → Swahili: chati
    • → Welsh: siart
  • → Scots: chairt
• Walloon: cwåte
• → Middle English: chartre, charter
  • English: charter (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: chairter

Etymology 2

From Latin carcer (“prison”), from Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure, barrier”).

Alternative forms

• cartre

Noun

chartre oblique singular, f (oblique plural chartres, nominative singular chartre, nominative plural chartres)

1. prison, jail

Descendants

• Middle French: chartre
  • French: chartre