carte

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑː(ɹ)t/
• Homophone: cart
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
   • 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

Noun

carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)

1. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte

See also

• carte anglaise

References

• “carte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cater, Trace, acter, caret, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁt/

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Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kat
• → Dutch: kaart
  • Afrikaans: kaart
  • Negerhollands: kaert
  • →? Lokono: kartang
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kártá
  • → Indonesian: kartu
  • → Papiamentu: karchi (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: karta
    • → Aukan: kaita
    • → Caribbean Javanese: kartah, kar, kertu
    • → Saramaccan: káíta
• → Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
• → English: carte
• → Khmer: កាត (kaat)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: carte
• → Persian: کارت (kârt)
• → Turkish: kart
• → Wolof: kart

Further reading

• “carte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of carta

Anagrams

• -crate, Creta, certa, cetra, creta, tacer, trace

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

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

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kaʈ/, /kaʁt/

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• Rhymes: -aʈ, -aʁt, -art
• Hyphenation: carte
• Homophone: kart

Noun

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”)

Anagrams

• cerat, racet

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑr.te/,

Noun

carte f

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

Declension

References

• 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

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of chartre

Portuguese

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carte

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: car‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English kart.

Alternative forms

• kart

Noun

carte m (plural cartes)

1. kart, cart, go-kart, go-cart (small vehicle used for racing)

   Synonym: kart

Derived terms

• cartódromo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

carte

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

References

Further reading

• “carte” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “carte” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “carte” in Dicionário inFormal.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.te/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: car‧te

Etymology 1

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

carte f (plural cărți)

1. book

   a citi o carte ― to read a book

2. card

   jocuri de cărți ― card games

Declension

Related terms

• cărturar

See also

• card
• hârtie

Etymology 2

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of cartă