χάρτης

According to Strong's Biblical Concordance, from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I scratch, inscribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to scratch”) (compare Lithuanian žerti (“to scrape”)). Modern scholarship rejects this (Beekes, Chantraine) and considers the etymology unknown. An Egyptian derivation was supposed, without any convincing etymon found, because of the Egyptian origin of papyrus. Consistent with the Phoenician influence on Greece in the field of writing (the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet), it has been suggested that χάρτης could derive from the Phoenician word 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 (ḥrṭyt), interpreted as "something written", cognate with Biblical Hebrew חֶרֶט (ḫereṭ, “stylus; style of writing”).

χᾰ́ρτης • (khártēs) m (genitive χᾰ́ρτου); first declension

1. sheet of paper, paper
2. book

• Greek: χάρτης (chártis)
  • → Romanian: hartă
• → Aramaic:

  Syriac script: ܟܼܲܪܛܝܼܣܵܐ (ḵarṭīsā), ܟܪܛܐܣܐ

  Hebrew script: כַּרְטִיסָא (karṭīsā), קַרְטִיסָא (qarṭīsā), קַרְטָאסָא (qarṭāsā),

  • → Arabic: قُرْطَاس (qurṭās), قَرْطَس (qarṭas) (obsolete) (see there for further descendants)
• → Bulgarian: хартия (hartija)
• → Hebrew: כַּרְטִיס (kartís)
• → Latin: charta (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: քարտ (kʻart), քարտէզ (kʻartēz), քարտէն (kʻartēn), քարտէս (kʻartēs)
  • → Armenian: քարտ (kʻart), քարտեզ (kʻartez), քարտես (kʻartes)
  • → Georgian: ქარტეზი (karṭezi)
• → Russian: хартия (xartija)
• ⇒ Koine Greek: χαρτίον (khartíon)
  • Greek: χαρτί (chartí) (see there for further descendants)

• “χάρτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάρτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάρτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5489 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (“a papyrus scroll”), semantic loan from Italian carta or from English chart, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of κάρτα (kárta, “card”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.tis/
• Hyphenation: χάρ‧της

χάρτης • (chártis) m (plural χάρτες)

1. (navigation) map, chart
2. charter, project charter, constitution

   καταστατικός χάρτης ― katastatikós chártis ― charter

3. (dated) synonym of χαρτί n (chartí, “paper”) in the set phrase

   εμπόριο χάρτου (empório chártou, “trading of paper”)

• άσκηση επί χάρτου (áskisi epí chártou)
• ο Χάρτης του ΟΗΕ (o Chártis tou OIE, “Charter of the United Nations”)

• χαρτο-, χαρτό-, χαρτ-
• χάρτα f (chárta, “chart”) (dated, formal)
• χαρτί n (chartí, “paper”) and derivatives

Related to maps:

• αχαρτογράφητος (achartográfitos, “uncharted”)
• χαρτογράφηση f (chartográfisi, “mapping, making a map”)
• χαρτογραφία f (chartografía, “cartography”)
• χαρτογραφικός (chartografikós, adjective)
• χαρτογράφος m or f (chartográfos, “cartographer”)
• χαρτογραφώ (chartografó, “to map”)

• → Romanian: hartă

• χάρτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el