Etymology

carton

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Today it means: An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. Full definition →

French carton ← Italian cartone
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromcartone
  2. French · borrowed fromcarton
  3. English todaycarton

Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. Doublet of cartoon.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcarton all →

cartoon

Italiancartone all →

cartoon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.