🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

cartão de crédito

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaʁˈtɐ̃w dʒi ˈkɾe.di.tu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Credit card/ˈkrɛd.ɪt kɑːd/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #1450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Posso pagar com cartão de crédito?"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small plastic card issued by a bank, financial business, etc., allowing the holder to purchase goods or services on credit.

    "She paid for the groceries using her credit card."
  2. 2

    A system of deferred payment enabled by such a card.

    "Do you prefer to pay in cash or by credit card?"

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'credit', deriving from the Latin 'creditum' (a loan, thing entrusted to another, from 'credere', to believe or trust), and 'card', deriving from the Greek 'chártēs' via Old Provençal and French. It emerged in the mid-20th century alongside the introduction of plastic charge cards used for deferred payment transactions.

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