cart

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑːt/
• (General American) enPR: kärt, IPA^(key): /kɑɹt/
• 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)

1. 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
2. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
3. (Internet) A shopping cart.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

Verb

cart (third-person singular simple present carts, present participle carting, simple past and past participle carted)

1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
2. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.

3. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

Clipping of cartridge.

Noun

cart (plural carts)

1. (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
2. (computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.

3. (slang) A cartridge containing cannabis oil used in vape pens.

Derived terms

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^(key): /kɑɾˠt̪ˠ/

Verb

cart (present analytic cartann, future analytic cartfaidh, verbal noun cartadh, past participle carta)

1. to clear away (dispose of, get rid of)
2. to scrape clean
3. to tan (turn animal hide into leather)
4. to scavenge (feed on carrion or refuse)
5. (Ulster) to clean, cleanse

Conjugation

Mutation

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)

1. go-cart

Declension

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cert

Etymology

Borrowed from English cart.

Noun

cart m (plural certi or ceirt)

1. (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

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