carto

From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto (“quarter”). Doublet of cuarto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾto̝/

carto m (plural cartos)

1. (historical) a quarter (coin)
   • 1805, anonymous, Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23):

     non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?

     our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine , when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little of bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this little wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?

2. (colloquial, by extension, in the plural) money

   Non teño cartos.

   I have no money.

   Synonym: diñeiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carto”, 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), “carto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtu, (Brazil) -aʁtu
• Hyphenation: car‧to

carto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cartar

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carto f

1. vocative singular of cartă