cárta

See also: carta and cartă

Irish

Alternative forms

• carda
• cárda (superseded)
• carta (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of cairt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾˠt̪ˠə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɾˠd̪ˠə/, /ˈkaːɾˠd̪ˠə/ (corresponding to the form carda)

Noun

cárta m (genitive singular cárta, nominative plural cártaí)

1. card (flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.)

Declension

Declension of cárta (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cárta cártaí vocative a chárta a chártaí genitive cárta cártaí dative cárta cártaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cárta na cártaí genitive an chárta na gcártaí dative leis an gcárta don chárta leis na cártaí

Derived terms

• cárta Aifrinn (“Mass card”)
• cárta beannachta (“greeting card”)
• cárta gnó (“business card”)
• cárta imeartha (“playing card”)
• cárta leide (“cue card”)
• cárta Nollag (“Christmas card”)
• cárta poist (“postcard”)
• cárta scóir (“scorecard”)
• físchárta (“video card”)
• leidchárta (“cue card”)
• scórchárta (“scorecard”)
• tollchárta (“punch-card”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cárta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cárta	chárta	gcárta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cárta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cárda”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 118
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cárta”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 120
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cárta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN