# charta
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈxarta]
* Rhymes: -arta
* Hyphenation: char‧ta

### Noun

charta f
* charter, an important document declaring political principles or rights

#### Derived terms

* chartista
* chartistický
* chartistka

### Further reading

* “charta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “charta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “charta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

### Anagrams

* chátra

## Irish
### Noun

charta
* Lenited form of carta.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* chartus, carta

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper”), with a change to the feminine gender.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkʰar.ta/, [ˈkʰärt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkar.ta/, [ˈkärt̪ä]

### Noun

charta f (genitive chartae); first declension
* papyrus, paper
* a piece of papyrus or paper
* a piece of writing, especially a letter, poem, or charter
* the papyrus plant
* (Medieval Latin) map, chart

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* chartaceus
* chartarium
* chartarius
* chartula
* ensiculus chartōrum
* Magna Charta

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance
** Aromanian: carti
** Romanian: carte
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: carta
** Romagnol: chêrta (Ville Unite)
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Corsican: carta
** Italian: carta (see there for further descendants)
** Sicilian: carta
* Old Occitan: carta
** Catalan: carta
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Friulian: cjarte
** Romansch: charta
* West Iberian
** Asturian: carta
** Old Galician-Portuguese: carta
*** Galician: carta
*** Portuguese: carta (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: carta (see there for further descendants)
* → Albanian: kartë
* → Czech: charta
* → German: Charta
* → Kashubian: kôrta
* → Livonian: kōrtõz
* → Old French: carte (see there for further descendants)
* → Old English: carte
** Middle English: carte
* → Old High German: kerza, charza (or from cērāta)
** Middle High German: kerze
*** Cimbrian: khéertza
*** German: Kerze
*** Luxembourgish: Käerz
** → Middle Dutch: kerse (see there for further descendants)
* →⇒ Latin: chartula
** Old French: chartre (see there for further descendants)

### Further reading

* “charta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “charta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "charta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* charta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “charta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* charta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “charta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxarta/

### Noun

charta
* inflection of chart:
** genitive/accusative singular
** nominative dual

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxar.ta/
* Rhymes: -arta
* Syllabification: char‧ta

### Noun

charta m animal
* genitive/accusative singular of chart

## Romansch
### Etymology

From Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

### Noun

charta f (plural chartas)
* letter, card

## Swedish
### Noun

charta
* Obsolete spelling of karta.