Carta is Latin and Italian for "paper" and is Spanish and Portuguese "letter". In English it takes🏧 the form "card" or "chart". Most of its uses pertain to its meaning as "paper", "chart", or "map", for example🏧 in Magna Carta.

Definition of 'carta'\n\n🏧 1. a formal document from the sovereign or state incorporating a city, bank, college, etc, and specifying its purposes and🏧 rights. 2. ( sometimes capital) a formal document granting or demanding from the sovereign power of a state certain rights🏧 or liberties.