carpeta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French carpette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kərˈpɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kərˈpə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈpe.ta]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Noun

carpeta f (plural carpetes)

1. folder
2. (computing) folder, directory

Derived terms

• carpetada

Further reading

• “carpeta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carpeta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “carpeta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carpeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

FWOTD – 26 October 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from French carpette. Alternatively, may be a diminutive of Spanish carpa, tent/canopy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpeta/ [kaɾˈpe.t̪a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: car‧pe‧ta

Noun

carpeta f (plural carpetas)

1. folder (an organizer that papers are kept in)
   • 2003, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Yale University Press, page 112:

     Todavía conservo una carpeta, con huellas circulares de cerveza, que contiene la traducción de los prolegómenos de Piero Manzoni y los manifestos spazialistas de Lucio Fontana, la tradrucción de una entrevista con Gerhard Richter, […]

     I still keep a folder, with circular beer-can marks, that contains the translation of Piero Manzoni’s prolegomena and Lucio Fontana’s spatialist manifestos, the translation of an interview with Gerhard Richter, […]

2. (computing) folder, directory (virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored)

   Synonym: directorio

   Coordinate term: fichero

   • 2008, Osvaldo Toja Suárez, 200 Respuestas: Redes, USERSHOP, page 117:

     Si teníamos ese archivo dentro de una carpeta donde había varios archivos que no nos interesaban compartir, teníamos que crear una nueva carpeta, copiar o mover el archivo allí y recién entonces, compartirla.

     If we had this file in a folder where there were several files that weren’t in our interest sharing, we had to create a new folder, copy or move the file there and just then share it.

3. (Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay) lace doily
4. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) tablecloth

   Synonyms: mantel, tapete

5. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) billiard cloth, gambling table cloth
6. (Cuba) hotel reception, reception desk at a hotel
7. (Louisiana, Spanglish) carpet

   Synonym: alfombra

Derived terms

• carpeta de usuario
• dar carpetazo

 

Further reading

• “carpeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10