carita

See also: Carita and carità

Latin

Participle

carita

1. inflection of caritus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

caritā

1. ablative feminine singular of caritus

References

• carita 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)

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चरित (carita, “acts, deeds”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ri.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri‧ta

Noun

carita

1. event
2. story

Derived terms

• acacaritan
• acarita
• amacaritākĕn
• apacarita
• apracarita
• cinarita
• cinaritākĕn
• cumarita
• cumaritākĕn
• kacarita
• kacaritan
• macaritākĕn
• pacarita
• pañarita
• pinacaritākĕn
• pracarita

• parwacarita
• sajjanacarita

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦕꦿꦶꦠ (crita) (inherited)
• → Malay: cerita

Further reading

• "carita" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Portuguese

Noun

carita

1. feminine singular of carito

Adjective

carita

1. feminine singular of carito

Spanish

Etymology

From cara +‎ -ita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾita/ [kaˈɾi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ca‧ri‧ta

Noun

carita f (plural caritas)

1. diminutive of cara; little face
2. smiley, emoticon, emoji

Derived terms

• pintacaritas

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay cerita, possibly through Ternate, from Pali carita, from Sanskrit चरित (carita).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ˈri.t̪a/

Noun

carita

1. a story

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics