carte
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Noun
carte (plural cartes)
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- (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."
- 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, The fortunes of Cyril Denham (page 258)
- (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.
- 2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle
- (Scotland, dated) A playing card.
Noun
carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁt/
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Descendants
Further reading
- “carte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Old French
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.