chartre

Noun

chartre (plural chartres)

1. Obsolete form of charter.

Anagrams

• Charter, charret, charter, rechart

Etymology

From Old French chartre, earlier cartre, inherited from Latin carcer, carcerem (“prison”).

Noun

chartre f (plural chartres)

1. (obsolete) prison; place of safekeeping

Further reading

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

Alternative forms

• carte
• charte
• chautre

Etymology

From Latin chartula (for a similar phonetic development, see Old French epistre (Modern French épître), from Latin epistula), or from charta with an unetymological r. Ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).

Noun

chartre f (oblique plural chartres, nominative singular chartre, nominative plural chartres)

1. charter; covenant; written agreement
2. record (written account of something)
3. letter (written message)