carte

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

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. (Scotland, dated) A playing card.

Anagrams

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

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

Further reading

• “carte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of carta

Anagrams

• certa, cetra, creta, Creta

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

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of chartre

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.

Etymology 2