Etymology

carthoun

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Today it means: A type of early cannon. Full definition →

German Kartaune ← Italian quartana
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromquartana“25-pounder cannon”
  2. German · borrowed fromKartaune
  3. English todaycarthoun

Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.