carta

From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/, [ˈkaɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartes)

1. letter (written message)
2. playing card (one of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card)

   Synonym: baraxa

3. map

Inherited from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkar.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkaɾ.ta]

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carta f (plural cartes)

1. letter, card (which one writes to someone)
2. menu

• “carta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “carta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin charta, borrowed from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Cognates include Italian carta and Spanish carta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarta/
  • (Cismontane) IPA^(key): [ˈkærta]
  • (Ultramontane) IPA^(key): [ˈkarta]
• Hyphenation: car‧ta
• Rhymes: -arta

carta f (plural carte)

1. card
2. map

• “carta, cartula” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ta/
• Homophones: cartas, cartât

carta

1. third-person singular past historic of carter

From Old Galician-Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/ [ˈkɑɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter, correspondence
2. (archaic) charter; contract
3. playing card
4. identification card
5. map
6. menu

• “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “carta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “carta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “carta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “carta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

carta

1. past participle of cart

carta

1. genitive singular of cartadh

carta

1. analytic present subjunctive of cart

From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -arta
• Hyphenation: càr‧ta

carta f (plural carte, diminutive cartìna, pejorative cartàccia)

1. paper (the material)
2. map

   Synonyms: carta geografica, mappa, pianta

3. menu

   Synonym: menu

4. card

• carta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• carta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• carta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• càrta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• carta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• carta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]

carta f (genitive cartae); first declension

1. Alternative form of charta

First-declension noun.

• carta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Old Galician-Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”). Doublet of cartaz.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtɐ, (Brazil) -aʁtɐ
• Hyphenation: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter (written message)

   Synonyms: epístola, missiva, correspondência

2. chart, map (visual representation of an area)

   Synonym: mapa

3. (card games) playing card (any of the 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play games)
4. (law) charter (document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges)
5. (Portugal, São Paulo) driver's license (an official personal document that permits driving a vehicle)

   Synonyms: carta de condução, (Brazil) carteira, (Brazil) carteira de motorista

• Papiamentu: karta (with Spanish)
• → Japanese: カルタ (karuta)
• → Swahili: karata

• “carta” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “carta” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “carta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “carta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “carta” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “carta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

carta

1. inflection of cartar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

carta f

1. definite singular of cartă

Inherited from Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus”). Cognate with English card and chart.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾta/ [ˈkaɾ.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾta
• Syllabification: car‧ta

carta f (plural cartas)

1. letter (document)
2. map

   Synonym: mapa

3. menu (list of dishes in a restaurant)

   Synonym: menú

4. playing card

• Papiamentu: karta (with Portuguese)
• Tagalog: kalatas

• “carta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• catar, traca