carter

See also: Carter, cárter, and čarter

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tə(r)
Homophone: Carter
Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)

Noun

carter (plural carters)

(dated) A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
  They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
A fish, the whiff or Marysole.

Coordinate terms

Translations

person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart

Finnish: hevoskuski
French: charretier (fr) m
German: Fuhrmann (de) m Wagner (de) m

Hungarian: szekeres
Portuguese: carreteiro (pt) m
Swedish: körkarl c, kusk (sv) c

Anagrams

Crater, arrect, crater, tracer

Catalan

Etymology

carta +‎ -er.

Noun

carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera)

postman

French

Noun

carter m (plural carters)

housing (of an engine)

Verb

carter

To verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card

Conjugation

Conjugation of carter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		carter			avoir carté
gerund		en cartant			en ayant carté
present participle		cartant /kaʁ.tɑ̃/
past participle		carté /kaʁ.te/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	carte /kaʁt/	cartes /kaʁt/	carte /kaʁt/	cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/	cartez /kaʁ.te/	cartent /kaʁt/
	imperfect	cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartait /kaʁ.tɛ/	cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/	cartiez /kaʁ.tje/	cartaient /kaʁ.tɛ/
	past historic¹	cartai /kaʁ.te/	cartas /kaʁ.ta/	carta /kaʁ.ta/	cartâmes /kaʁ.tam/	cartâtes /kaʁ.tat/	cartèrent /kaʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	carterai /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/	carteras /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/	cartera /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/	carterons /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	carterez /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/	carteront /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterait /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	carterions /kaʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	carteriez /kaʁ.tə.ʁje/	carteraient /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	carte /kaʁt/	cartes /kaʁt/	carte /kaʁt/	cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/	cartiez /kaʁ.tje/	cartent /kaʁt/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	cartasse /kaʁ.tas/	cartasses /kaʁ.tas/	cartât /kaʁ.ta/	cartassions /kaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	cartassiez /kaʁ.ta.sje/	cartassent /kaʁ.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	carte /kaʁt/	—	cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/	cartez /kaʁ.te/	—
¹literary tenses

Gallo

Verb

carter

(transitive) to fold (laundry)

Italian

Noun

carter m (invariable)

chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
oil sump (in a car)

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