Etymology

chartula

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Today it means: A small piece of paper for the storage of one dose of a medicinal powder. Full definition →

Latin chartula
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromchartula“little paper”
  2. English todaychartula

Learned borrowing from Latin chartula (“little paper”). Doublet of charter.

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