carpeta
Catalan
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “carpeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “carpeta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “carpeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carpeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
FWOTD – 26 October 2012
Etymology
Borrowed from French carpette. Alternatively, may be a diminutive of Spanish carpa, tent/canopy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈpeta/ [kaɾˈpe.t̪a]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: car‧pe‧ta
Noun
carpeta f (plural carpetas)
- folder (an organizer that papers are kept in)
- 2003, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Yale University Press, page 112:
- Todavía conservo una carpeta, con huellas circulares de cerveza, que contiene la traducción de los prolegómenos de Piero Manzoni y los manifestos spazialistas de Lucio Fontana, la tradrucción de una entrevista con Gerhard Richter, […]
- I still keep a folder, with circular beer-can marks, that contains the translation of Piero Manzoni’s prolegomena and Lucio Fontana’s spatialist manifestos, the translation of an interview with Gerhard Richter, […]
- (computing) folder, directory (virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored)
- Synonym: directorio
- Coordinate term: fichero
- 2008, Osvaldo Toja Suárez, 200 Respuestas: Redes, USERSHOP, page 117:
- Si teníamos ese archivo dentro de una carpeta donde había varios archivos que no nos interesaban compartir, teníamos que crear una nueva carpeta, copiar o mover el archivo allí y recién entonces, compartirla.
- If we had this file in a folder where there were several files that weren’t in our interest sharing, we had to create a new folder, copy or move the file there and just then share it.
- (Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay) lace doily
- (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) tablecloth
- (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) billiard cloth, gambling table cloth
- (Cuba) hotel reception, reception desk at a hotel
- (Louisiana, Spanglish) carpet
Derived terms
Further reading
- “carpeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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