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Kartaune, Kartauwe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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German lexicographers are practically unanimous in deriving Kartaune, together with its variant Kartauwe, from an Italian word quartana, interpreted to mean either ‘a gun of the fourth magnitude’ or one ‘which shoots a ball of 25 pounds.‘ Kluge, for example, says:

Kartaune, Kartane F. ‘kleine dicke Kanone’ (bei Henisch 1616 cartuna) aus ital. quartana, neulat. quartâna; diese Bezeichnung, sowie deren ältere nhd. Übersetzung Viertelsbüchse meint eine Kanone, “welche 25 Pfund schoss im Vergleich zu dem grössten 100 Pfund schiessenden Belagerungsgeschütz.”

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1920

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