carte
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.
Noun
carte (plural cartes)
- A bill of fare; a menu.
- (dated) A visiting card.
- 1869, Emma Jane Worboise, “Confidences”, in The Fortunes of Cyril Denham, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder & Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 258:
- "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.
- (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.
- (Scotland, dated) A playing card.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
- 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 242:
- He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
Etymology 2
Noun
carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)
See also
References
- “carte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognate with French charte.
Pronunciation
Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
Derived terms
- à la carte
- brouiller les cartes
- carte à jouer
- carte bancaire
- carte blanche
- carte bleue
- carte de crédit
- carte de débit
- carte de visite
- carte d’embarquement
- carte d’identité
- carte heuristique
- carte mémoire
- carte mentale
- carte mère
- carte postale
- carte routière
- carte SIM
- carte soleil
- carte verte
- carte vierge
- château de cartes
- faire une carte de France
- jeu de cartes
- jouer cartes sur table
- jouer la carte de
- rebattre les cartes
- taper la carte
Descendants
Further reading
- “carte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
carte f pl
Anagrams
Etymology
From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).
Noun
carte f (plural cartes)
Derived terms
Etymology
From French carte (“card, chart”), from Latin charta (“paper, poem”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, book”), possibly from either χαράσσω (kharássō, “I scratch, inscribe”) or from Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 (ḥrṭyt, “something written”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carte m (definite singular carten, indefinite plural carter, definite plural cartene)
- Only used in à la carte (“à la carte”)
- Only used in carte blanche (“carte blanche”)
Anagrams
Etymology
From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρτης (khắrtēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
carte f
Declension
Weak:
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “carte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “carte”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Noun
carte oblique singular, f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)
- Alternative form of chartre
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