different between cart vs cartable

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) enPR: kärt, IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), akin to Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *krad?, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”).

Noun

cart (plural carts)

1. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet) A shopping cart.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (k?to)
• ? Korean: ?? (kateu)

Translations

Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)

1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
2. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.

3. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
   • 2001, Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, chapter 2, 18:

     On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis, a general term for inflammation of the heart and surrounding tissues.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of cartridge.

Noun

cart (plural carts)

1. (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
2. (video games, informal) A cartridge for a video game system.

   My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

Derived terms

• multicart

Anagrams

• -crat, C-rat, RACT, crat

Irish

Alternative forms

• scart

Etymology

From Middle Irish cartaid (“to expel, drive off”), from Proto-Celtic *kartati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???t??/

Verb

cart (present analytic cartann, future analytic cartfaidh, verbal noun cartadh, past participle carta)

1. to clear away (dispose of, get rid of)
2. to scrape clean
3. to tan (turn animal hide into leather)
4. to scavenge (feed on carrion or refuse)
5. (Ulster) to clean, cleanse

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• “cart” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cartaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “cartaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 120.
• "cart" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

English

Etymology

cart +? -able

Adjective

cartable (comparative more cartable, superlative most cartable)

1. Able to be carted or carried.

   a device of cartable size

2. (chiefly India) Able to be traveled by cart.

   a cartable road

Anagrams

• bracteal

French

Etymology

Related to carte, but of unclear formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.tabl/

Noun

cartable m (plural cartables)

1. satchel; schoolbag

Further reading

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