carta

See also: Carta, cárta, and cartă

Asturian

Etymology

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

Noun

carta f (plural cartes)

1. letter (written message)
2. playing card (one of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card)
3. map

Synonyms

• (playing card): baraxa

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

carta f (plural cartes)

1. letter, card (which one writes to someone)
2. menu

Derived terms

• cartell
• carter
• cartera
• joc de cartes

 

See also

• targeta

Further reading

• “carta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “carta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin charta, borrowed from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognates include Italian carta and Spanish carta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarta/
  • (Cismontane) IPA^(key): [ˈkærta]
  • (Ultramontane) IPA^(key): [ˈkarta]
• Hyphenation: car‧ta
• Rhymes: -arta

Noun

carta f (plural carte)

1. card
2. map

References

• “carta, cartula” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ta/
• Homophones: cartas, cartât

Verb

carta

1. third-person singular past historic of carter

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɾtɐ]

Noun

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter, correspondence
2. (archaic) charter; contract
3. playing card
4. identification card
5. map
6. menu

Derived terms

• carteira
• carteiro
• descartar
• encartar

 

References

• “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “carta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “carta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “carta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Participle

carta

1. past participle of cart

Noun

carta

1. genitive singular of cartadh

Verb

carta

1. analytic present subjunctive of cart

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
carta	charta	gcarta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arta
• Syllabification: càr‧ta

Noun

carta f (plural carte, diminutive cartìna, pejorative cartàccia)

1. paper (the material)
2. map

   Synonyms: carta geografica, mappa, pianta

3. menu

   Synonym: menu

4. card

Related terms

• aeroplanino di carta
• carta assorbente
• carta carbone
• carta d'identità
• carta da gioco
• carta da lettere
• carta da parati
• carta dei vini
• carta di credito
• carta igienica
• carta millimetrata
• carta SIM
• carta vetrata
• cartaccia
• cartaceo
• cartaio
• cartapesta
• carteggio
• cartella
• cartello
• cartiera, cartificio
• cartina
• cartoccio
• cartografia
• cartoleria
• cartolina
• cartomanzia
• cartone
• cartotecnica
• cartuccia
• incartare
• scartare

 

Descendants

• → Cimbrian: karta, kart
• → Greek: κάρτα (kárta)
• → Hungarian: kártya
• → Maltese: karta

Further reading

• carta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Etymology

See charta

Pronunciation

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

Noun

carta f (genitive cartae); first declension

1. papyrus (sheet of)
2. letter etc

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carta	cartae
Genitive	cartae	cartārum
Dative	cartae	cartīs
Accusative	cartam	cartās
Ablative	cartā	cartīs
Vocative	carta	cartae

References

• carta 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)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”). Doublet of cartaz.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈkah.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈkah.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.tɐ/ [ˈkaχ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɻ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtɐ, (Brazil) -aʁtɐ
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

Noun

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter (written message)

   Synonyms: epístola, missiva, correspondência

2. chart, map (visual representation of an area)

   Synonym: mapa

3. (card games) playing card (any of the 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play games)
4. (law) charter (document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges)
5. (Portugal, São Paulo) driver's license (an official personal document that permits driving a vehicle)

   Synonyms: carta de condução, (Brazil) carteira, (Brazil) carteira de motorista

Derived terms

• carta de alforria
• carta de condução
• carta constitucional
• carta de crédito

Descendants

• Papiamentu: karta (with Spanish)
• → Japanese: カルタ (karuta)
• → Swahili: karata

See also

Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text)
ás	dois, duque	três, terno	quatro, quadra	cinco, quina	seis, sena	sete, bisca, manilha
oito	nove	dez	valete	dama	rei	jóquer, coringa, curinga

Romanian

Noun

carta f

1. definite singular of cartă

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus”). Cognate with English card and chart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/ [ˈkaɾ.t̪a]

• Audio (Latin America)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Syllabification: car‧ta

Noun

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter (document)
2. map

   Synonym: mapa

3. menu (list of dishes in a restaurant)

   Synonym: menú

4. playing card

Derived terms

• a la carta
• abrecartas
• carta abierta
• carta al director
• carta amorosa
• carta blanca
• carta bomba
• carta de amor
• carta de derechos
• carta de presentación
• carta de vinos
• Carta Magna
• carta reversal
• carta segura
• cartilla
• cartón
• descartar
• echar las cartas
• entre gitanos no nos leemos las cartas
• jugar a las cartas
• jugárselo todo a una carta
• mesa de cartas
• no saber a qué carta quedarse
• tomar cartas en el asunto

 

Related terms

• cartel
• cartografía

Descendants

• Papiamentu: karta (with Portuguese)
• Tagalog: kalatas

Further reading

• “carta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• catar
• traca