carte

See also: Carte and carté

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

carte (plural cartes)

  1. A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, The fortunes of Cyril Denham (page 258)
      "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is."
  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.

Etymology 2

Noun

carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)

  1. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for carte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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

Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

carte f pl

  1. plural of carta

Anagrams

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

Old French

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of chartre

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkar.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.

Noun

carte f (plural cărți)

  1. book
    a citi o carte ― to read a book
  2. card
    jocuri de cărţi ― card games
Declension
declension of carte
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) carte cartea (niște) cărți cărțile
genitive/dative (unei) cărți cărții (unor) cărți cărților
vocative carte, carteo cărților
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

carte f pl

  1. plural of cartă
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