The corpus record

χαρτός

chartos

causing delight, welcome

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

causing delight, welcome, delights

causing delight, welcome, χαρτὸν εἴ τι καὶ φέρεις S. Tr. 228; χαίροις ἄν, εἴ σοι χαρτὰ τυγχάνει τάδε Id. El. 1457; εἴτε ἡδὺ εἴτε τερπνὸν λέγεις εἴτε χ. Pl. Prt. 358a: χαρτά delights, opp. κακά, χαρτοῖσιν χαῖρε Archil. 66.6; χαρτὰ πάσχω E. Ph. 618 (troch.); τὸ χ. Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.9, Epicur. Fr. 423, S.E. M. 11.85, etc.

of persons, εἰ χ. ἀνέλθοι AP 12.24 (Tull.Laur.). Adv. -τῶς, χ. ἐμοὶ λέγειν Sch.S.Aj. 112.

In the wild

χαρτὰ · charta Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 355)
χαρτόν · charton Plato, Protagoras 358
χαρτὸν · charton Plotinus, Enneads 6.7 (DIORISIS sentence 5965)
χαρτὰ · charta Sophocles, Electra 1457
χαρτὸν · charton Sophocles, Trachiniae 227–228

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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