# cart
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɑːt/
* (General American) enPR: kärt, IPA: /kɑɹt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (US, Inland Northern American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

### Etymology 1

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), akin to Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).

#### Noun

cart (plural carts)
* A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
    Coordinate term: (usually with four wheels on two axles) wagon
    The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
* A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
* (Internet) A shopping cart.

##### Hyponyms

* applecart
* baggage cart
* bullock cart, bullock-cart
* crash cart
* golfcart
* grocery cart
* handcart
* horsecart
* luggage cart
* mailcart
* minecart
* palkee-garry
* postcart
* pushcart
* shopping cart
* teacart

##### Derived terms

* applecart, apple cart, apple-cart
* ass cart
* baggage cart
* bankrupt cart
* bascart
* billy cart
* bullock cart
* cartable
* cartage
* cart away
* cartbote
* carter
* cartful
* cart horse
* carthorse
* carthouse
* cartless
* cartlike
* cartload
* cartmaker
* cartmaking
* cartman
* cart off
* cart path
* cartpole
* cart road, cartroad
* cartshed
* cart stall
* cart tart
* cartway
* cartwheel
* cartwhip
* chapel cart
* cold meat cart
* crash cart
* dandy cart
* deadcart
* ding dong cart
* dogcart, dog cart
* dumpcart, dump cart, dump-cart
* dustcart, dust cart
* fire cart
* food cart
* go-cart
* golf cart
* governess-cart
* grocery cart
* halal cart
* handcart, hand cart, hand-cart
* haycart
* honey cart
* horse and cart
* horsecart
* luggage cart
* mailcart
* mancart, man-cart
* minecart
* night cart, night-cart
* oxcart
* pie cart
* postcart
* pushcart
* put the cart before the horse
* shifter cart
* shopping cart
* sling cart
* tax cart
* T-cart
* teacart, tea cart
* tipcart
* trundle cart
* uncart
* undercart
* upset the apple cart
* village cart
* Whitechapel cart

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: カート (kāto)
* → Korean: 카트 (kateu)

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)
* (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 259:"You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"
* (transitive, informal) To carry goods.
    I've been carting these things around all day.
* (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
** 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18:On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis
** 2012, Lindsay Rae, Ashley Clements, Sarah Marland, World Poverty for Dummies, →ISBN:Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.
** 2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes, →ISBN, page 197:Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.
* (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
** 1708, Matthew Prior, Paulo Purganti and His Wife:She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ Etymology in Merriam-Webster's dictionay

### Etymology 2

Clipping of cartridge.

#### Noun

cart (plural carts)
* (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
* (computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
    My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.
* (slang) A cartridge containing cannabis oil used in vape pens.
** 2022 June 23, Christina Caron, quoting Elysse, “Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-19:Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."
** 2023 March 17, Danielle Guercio, “How to Unclog a Vape Pen”, in Lifehacker‎, archived from the original on 2023-12-22:Vapes are a relatively new innovation, and at this point, the process of feeding cannabis oil to a heat source creates a few challenges for devices like disposable carts to overcome.

##### Derived terms

* multicart

### Anagrams

* C-rat, -crat, TCRA, RACT, crat

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* scart

### Etymology

From Middle Irish cartaid (“to expel, drive off”), from Proto-Celtic *kartati.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑɾˠt̪ˠ/

### Verb

cart (present analytic cartann, future analytic cartfaidh, verbal noun cartadh, past participle carta)
* to clear away (dispose of, get rid of)
* to scrape clean
* to tan (turn animal hide into leather)
* to scavenge (feed on carrion or refuse)
* (Ulster) to clean, cleanse

#### Conjugation

| verbal noun | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh | cartadh |
| past participle | carta | carta | carta | carta | carta | carta | carta | carta |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | cartaim | cartann tú; cartair$^†$ | cartann sé, sí | cartaimid | cartann sibh | cartann siad; cartaid$^†$ | a chartann; a chartas / a gcartann* | cartar |
| past | chart mé; chartas | chart tú; chartais | chart sé, sí | chartamar; chart muid | chart sibh; chartabhair | chart siad; chartadar | a chart / ar chart* | cartadh |
| past habitual | chartainn / gcartainn‡‡ | chartá / gcartá‡‡ | chartadh sé, sí / gcartadh sé, sí‡‡ | chartaimis; chartadh muid / gcartaimis‡‡; gcartadh muid‡‡ | chartadh sibh / gcartadh sibh‡‡ | chartaidís; chartadh siad / gcartaidís‡‡; gcartadh siad‡‡ | a chartadh / a gcartadh* | chartaí / gcartaí‡‡ |
| future | cartfaidh mé; cartfad | cartfaidh tú; cartfair$^†$ | cartfaidh sé, sí | cartfaimid; cartfaidh muid | cartfaidh sibh | cartfaidh siad; cartfaid$^†$ | a chartfaidh; a chartfas / a gcartfaidh* | cartfar |
| conditional | chartfainn / gcartfainn‡‡ | chartfá / gcartfá‡‡ | chartfadh sé, sí / gcartfadh sé, sí‡‡ | chartfaimis; chartfadh muid / gcartfaimis‡‡; gcartfadh muid‡‡ | chartfadh sibh / gcartfadh sibh‡‡ | chartfaidís; chartfadh siad / gcartfaidís‡‡; gcartfadh siad‡‡ | a chartfadh / a gcartfadh* | chartfaí / gcartfaí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go gcarta mé; go gcartad$^†$ | go gcarta tú; go gcartair$^†$ | go gcarta sé, sí | go gcartaimid; go gcarta muid | go gcarta sibh | go gcarta siad; go gcartaid$^†$ | — | go gcartar |
| past | dá gcartainn | dá gcartá | dá gcartadh sé, sí | dá gcartaimis; dá gcartadh muid | dá gcartadh sibh | dá gcartaidís; dá gcartadh siad | — | dá gcartaí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | cartaim | cart | cartadh sé, sí | cartaimis | cartaigí; cartaidh$^†$ | cartaidís | — | cartar |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* “cart”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cartaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cartaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 120
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cart”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English kart.

### Noun

cart n (plural carturi)
* go-cart

#### Declension
## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* cert

### Etymology

Borrowed from English cart.

### Noun

cart m (plural certi or ceirt)
* (South Wales) cart (two-wheeled vehicle)
    Synonym: (North Wales) trol

#### Derived terms

* bant â'r cart (“off we go”)

#### Related terms

* (four-wheeled vehicle) men, wagen (“wagon”)

#### Mutation

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

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cart”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies