Karte

== German == === Alternative forms === Charte, Carte (obsolete) === Etymology === From Late Middle High German karte (“stiff sheet of paper”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Compare Dutch kaart, English card, Yiddish קאָרט (kort), Low German Kaart, Koort. Doublet of Charta and Karton. See also Charter. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkartə/, [ˈkaʁ.tə], [ˈkar-], [ˈkaɐ̯-], [ˈkaː-], (southern also) [-te], (Austria also) [-tɛ] Homophone: Kate (some speakers) === Noun === Karte f (genitive Karte, plural Karten, diminutive Kärtchen n) card (flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.) ellipsis of Spielkarte: playing card ellipsis of Landkarte: map ellipsis of Speisekarte: menu ellipsis of Eintrittskarte or Fahrkarte: ticket ellipsis of Bankkarte or Kreditkarte: debit card, credit card (differential geometry) coordinate chart Synonym: Flachmacher ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== Stadtplan ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Japanese: カルテ (karute) → Latvian: karte, kārts → Polish: karta (see there for further descendants) → Yiddish: קאַרטע (karte) === Further reading === “Karte” in Duden online “Karte”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Karte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891