carte
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.
Noun edit
carte (plural cartes)
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- (dated) A visiting card.
- 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Confidences”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 258:
- "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.
- (historical) A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
- 2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle:
- Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.
- (Scotland, dated) A playing card.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
- 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 242:
- He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)
See also edit
References edit
- “carte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carte f (plural cartes)
Derived terms edit
- à la carte
- brouiller les cartes
- carte à jouer
- carte bancaire
- carte blanche
- carte bleue
- carte de crédit
- carte de débit
- carte de visite
- carte d’embarquement
- carte d’identité
- carte heuristique
- carte mémoire
- carte mentale
- carte mère
- carte postale
- carte routière
- carte SIM
- carte soleil
- carte verte
- carte vierge
- château de cartes
- faire une carte de France
- jeu de cartes
- jouer cartes sur table
- jouer la carte de
- rebattre les cartes
- taper la carte
Descendants edit
- Haitian Creole: kat
- → Dutch: kaart
- → Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
- → English: carte
- → Khmer: កាត (kaat)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: carte
- → Persian: کارت (kârt)
- → Turkish: kart
- → Wolof: kart
Further reading edit
- “carte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carte f pl
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun edit
carte f (plural cartes)
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From French carte (“card, chart”), from Latin charta (“paper, poem”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, book”), possibly from either χαράσσω (kharássō, “I scratch, inscribe”) or from Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 (ḥrṭyt, “something written”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carte m (definite singular carten, indefinite plural carter, definite plural cartene)
- Only used in à la carte (“à la carte”)
- Only used in carte blanche (“carte blanche”)
Anagrams edit
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρτης (khártēs).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carte f
Declension edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “carte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916), “carte”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Old French edit
Noun edit
carte oblique singular, f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)
- Alternative form of chartre
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: car‧te
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English kart.[1]
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
carte m (plural cartes)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
carte
- inflection of cartar:
References edit
Further reading edit
- “carte” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “carte” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “carte” in Dicionário inFormal.
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin charta, possibly through a hypothetical earlier Romanian intermediate form *cartă, and created from its plural (thus deriving its meaning from "many papers"). Ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cartă, a borrowing, as well as hartă, from Greek, and hârtie, from Greek and South Slavic.
Noun edit
carte f (plural cărți)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
carte f pl