karte

See also: Karte, kartē, kārtē, kārte, kartë, and kartę

Latvian
Karte

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karte, like kārts “playing cards” (the latter apparently having suffered the influence of kārts “pole” on its form), first attested as zemes kārte (with a long ā) in the 1850s, and later on (by the end of the 19th century) simply as karte (with a short e).[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

karte f (5th declension)

  1. (geography) map, chart
    kartes mērogs ― map scale
    lasīt karti ― to read a map
    ģeogrāfiska karte ― geographic map
    topogrāfiska karte ― topographic map
    ģeoloģiska karte ― geologic map
    zvaigžņu karte ― star chart
  2. document; identification; card
    bibliotēkas lasītāja karte ― library reader card
    slimnieka individuālā karte ― individual patient card
  3. sheet of paper, card, etc. with special information
    tramvaja, trolejbusa karte ― a (one-month) tram, trolley pass
    ielūguma karte ― invitation card
    ēdienu karte, ēdienkarte ― food menu

Declension
Declension of karte (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) karte kartes
accusative (akuzatīvs) karti kartes
genitive (ģenitīvs) kartes karšu
dative (datīvs) kartei kartēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) karti kartēm
locative (lokatīvs) kartē kartēs
vocative (vokatīvs) karte kartes

Derived terms

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “kārtsb”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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