See also: Carte and carté

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.

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carte (plural cartes)

  1. A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. (Scotland, dated) A playing card.

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carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)

  1. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.

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  • IPA(key): /kaʁt/
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carte f (plural cartes)

  1. card
  2. chart; map
  3. menu, bill of fare

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  • Haitian Creole: kat
  • Dutch: kaart
  • Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
  • English: carte
  • Khmer: កាត (kaat)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: carte
  • Persian: کارت (kârt)
  • Turkish: kart
  • Wolof: kart

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.te/
  • Rhymes: -arte
  • Hyphenation: càr‧te

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carte f pl

  1. plural of carta

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, papyrus, paper).

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carte f (plural cartes)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) card
  2. (Jersey, nautical) chart

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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).

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carte m (definite singular carten, indefinite plural carter, definite plural cartene)

  1. Only used in à la carte (à la carte)
  2. Only used in carte blanche (carte blanche)

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρτης (khártēs).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑr.te/, [ˈkɑrˠ.te]

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carte f

  1. paper, piece of paper
  2. document, deed

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Noun

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carte oblique singularf (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)

  1. Alternative form of chartre

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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  • Hyphenation: car‧te

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English kart.[1]

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Noun

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carte m (plural cartes)

  1. kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)
    Synonym: kart
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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carte

  1. inflection of cartar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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  1. ^ carte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

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Romanian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.te/
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  • Hyphenation: car‧te

Etymology 1

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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.

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carte f (plural cărți)

  1. book
    a citi o carteto read a book
  2. card
    jocuri de cărțicard games
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carte f pl

  1. plural of cartă