carta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/,
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartes)

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

   Synonym: baraxa

3. map

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

• Audio:

  (file)

carta f (plural cartes)

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

• “carta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

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

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

carta f (plural carte)

1. card
2. map

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

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

carta

1. third-person singular past historic of carter

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartas)

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

carta

1. past participle of cart

carta

1. genitive singular of cartadh

carta

1. analytic present subjunctive of cart

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arta
• Hyphenation: càr‧ta

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

• carta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• carta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• carta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• càrta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• carta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• carta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/,

carta f (genitive cartae); first declension

1. Alternative form of charta

First-declension noun.

• 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)

From English chart, from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). Doublet of kad and kertas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa(r)ta/
• Rhymes: -ta, -a
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta (Jawi spelling چرتا, plural carta-carta, informal 1st possessive cartaku, 2nd possessive cartamu, 3rd possessive cartanya)

1. chart (map or diagram)

• “carta” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

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

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

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

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, curinga

• “carta”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “carta”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “carta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “carta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “carta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “carta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

carta

1. inflection of cartar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

carta f

1. definite singular of cartă

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Syllabification: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter (document)
2. map

   Synonym: mapa

3. menu (list of dishes in a restaurant)

   Synonym: menú

4. playing card

• carta is a false friend and generally does not mean "card" (unless referring to playing cards). A more accurate translation for most meanings of the English word "card" (including a payment card, an identity card, a postcard, and a colour card used by referees) is tarjeta.

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

• “carta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• catar, traca