The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromcarta“paper”
- Italian · derived fromcartoccio“roll of paper”
- French · borrowed fromcartouche
- English todaycartridge
Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Words from the same roots
Frenchcartouche all →
cartouche
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.