different between carte vs quarte

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. See card and chart.

Noun

carte (plural cartes)

1. A bill of fare; a menu.
2. (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."

3. (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.

4. (Scotland, dated) A playing card.

Etymology 2

Noun

carte (countable and uncountable, plural cartes)

1. (fencing) Alternative form of quarte

Anagrams

• Trace, acter, caret, cater, crate, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s). Cognate with French charte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?t/

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

1. card
2. chart; map
3. menu

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kat
• ? Dutch: kaart
  • Afrikaans: kaart
  • ? Sranan Tongo: karta
  • ? Indonesian: kartu
• ? Dutch Low Saxon: kaarte
• ? English: carte
• ? Khmer: ??? (kaat)
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: carte
• ? Persian: ????? (kârt)
• ? Turkish: kart
• ? Wolof: kart

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• créât, écart, terça, trace, tracé

Italian

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of carta

Anagrams

• certa, cetra, creta, Creta

Norman

Etymology

From Latin charta (probably borrowed), from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “papyrus, paper”).

Noun

carte f (plural cartes)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) card
2. (Jersey, nautical) chart

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French carte (“card, chart”), from Latin charta (“paper, poem”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “paper, book”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/, /ka?t/
• Rhymes: -a?, -a?t
• Hyphenation: carte
• Homophone: kart

Noun

carte m (definite singular carten, indefinite plural carter, definite plural cartene)

1. Only used in à la carte (“à la carte”)
2. Only used in a la carte (“a la carte”)
3. Only used in à la carte-meny (“à la carte menu”)
4. Only used in a la carte-meny (“a la carte menu”)
5. Only used in à la carte-servering (“à la carte serving”)
6. Only used in a la carte-servering (“a la carte serving”)
7. Only used in carte blanche (“carte blanche”)

Anagrams

• cerat, racet

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.te/, [?k?r?.te]

Etymology

From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (khárt?s).

Noun

carte f

1. paper
2. document, deed

Declension

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.

Old French

Noun

carte f (oblique plural cartes, nominative singular carte, nominative plural cartes)

1. Alternative form of chartre

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kar.te]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin charta, possibly through a hypothetical earlier Romanian intermediate form *cart?, and created from its plural (thus deriving its meaning from "many papers"). Ultimately from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s). Doublet of cart?, a borrowing.

Noun

carte f (plural c?r?i)

1. book

2. card

Declension

Related terms

• c?rturar

See also

• card
• hârtie

Etymology 2

Noun

carte f pl

1. plural of cart?

English

Alternative forms

• carte

Etymology

French quarte

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.

Anagrams

• aquert, quatre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?t/

Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (music) fourth (music interval)

2. (fencing) quarte

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Adjective

quarte

1. fourth

Italian

Adjective

quarte

1. feminine plural of quarto

Noun

quarte f

1. plural of quarta

Latin

Numeral

qu?rte

1. vocative masculine singular of qu?rtus

References

• quarte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (Jersey) quart

Old French

Adjective

quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth (ordinal adjective)