carita

carita

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

caritā

1. ablative feminine singular of caritus

• 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)

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

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

carita

1. event
2. story

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

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

From cara +‎ -ita.

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

carita f (plural caritas)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ˈri.t̪a/

carita

1. a story

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics