carter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: Carter
- Homophone: carder (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: cart‧er
Noun
[edit]carter (plural carters)
- A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
- 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 42, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book III (The Ill-Made Knight):
- The wretched girl blushed and held her tongue, while Lancelot could be seen throwing his reins to the terrified carter, and storming up the drawbridge, shouting at the top of his voice.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
- They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
- A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]person who transports a load on an animal-drawn cart
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Northern) [kərˈte̞]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Central) [kərˈte]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈteɾ]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [karˈte]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
[edit]carter m (plural carters, feminine cartera, feminine plural carteres)
- postman, letter carrier
- (card games) reserve (remaining cards not dealt out)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “carter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
French
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carter m (plural carters)
- housing (of an engine)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]carter
- to verify a person's age etc by inspecting his identity card
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of carter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | carter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cartant /kaʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | carté /kaʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | carte /kaʁt/ |
cartes /kaʁt/ |
carte /kaʁt/ |
cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ |
cartez /kaʁ.te/ |
cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect | cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartais /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartait /kaʁ.tɛ/ |
cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ |
cartaient /kaʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cartai /kaʁ.te/ |
cartas /kaʁ.ta/ |
carta /kaʁ.ta/ |
cartâmes /kaʁ.tam/ |
cartâtes /kaʁ.tat/ |
cartèrent /kaʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | carterai /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
carteras /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
cartera /kaʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
carterons /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
carterez /kaʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
carteront /kaʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterais /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterait /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
carterions /kaʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
carteriez /kaʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
carteraient /kaʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | carte /kaʁt/ |
cartes /kaʁt/ |
carte /kaʁt/ |
cartions /kaʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
cartiez /kaʁ.tje/ |
cartent /kaʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | cartasse /kaʁ.tas/ |
cartasses /kaʁ.tas/ |
cartât /kaʁ.ta/ |
cartassions /kaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cartassiez /kaʁ.ta.sje/ |
cartassent /kaʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | carte /kaʁt/ |
— | cartons /kaʁ.tɔ̃/ |
cartez /kaʁ.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “carter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Gallo
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
[edit]carter
- (transitive) to fold (laundry)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch charter, from English charter, chartre, from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]carter
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “carter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]carter m (invariable)
- chain guard (on a bicycle or motorcycle)
- oil sump (in a car)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carter m
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