chartula

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːrtʃələ/

Noun

chartula (plural chartulae)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A small piece of paper for the storage of one dose of a medicinal powder.

Related terms

• cartulary
• chart

Latin

Etymology

charta +‎ -ula

Noun

chartula f (genitive chartulae); first declension

1. (diminutive of charta) a little paper; memorandum

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	chartula	chartulae
genitive	chartulae	chartulārum
dative	chartulae	chartulīs
accusative	chartulam	chartulās
ablative	chartulā	chartulīs
vocative	chartula	chartulae

Derived terms

• chartulārius

Descendants

• Old French: chartre, carte, charte, chautre
  • Middle French: chartre, charte
    • French: charte
      • → Afar: shárti
      • → Romanian: cartă
    • → English: chart
      • → Japanese: チャート (chāto)
      • → Korean: 차트 (chateu)
      • → Swahili: chati
      • → Welsh: siart
    • → Scots: chairt
  • Walloon: cwåte
  • → Middle English: chartre, charter
    • English: charter (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: chairter

References

• “chartula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chartula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "chartula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “chartula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• chartula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016