carta
Meaning
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- (feminine) letter (written message)
- (feminine) chart, map (visual representation of an area)
- (feminine) playing card (any of the 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play games)
- (feminine) charter (document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges)
- (Portugal,São-Paulo,feminine) driver's license (an official personal document that permits driving a vehicle)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
car‧ta
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkaʁ.tɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”). Doublet of cartaz.
New
cartar
- (transitive) to cut (a deck of cards)
- (Rio-de-Janeiro,intransitive) to fake, to pretend
- (Rio-de-Janeiro,transitive) to attract (someone's) attention
- (Rio-de-Janeiro,intransitive) to attract attention
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