An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Kartaune

by Friedrich Kluge

Kartaune, Kartane, feminine, ‘short, heavy cannon,’ from Italian quartana, Middle Latin quartâna; this term, as well as its earlier Modern High German version Viertelsbüchse, signifies a gun “which fired 25 lbs., in comparison with the heaviest piece of artillery firing 100 lbs.”