charta

American  

[kahr-tuh] / ˈkɑr tə /

noun

Pharmacology.

• chartae
  plural

1. a strip of paper that is impregnated with a medicinal substance, for external application.

2. Also called chartula, powder paper. a paper folded so as to form a packet for a powdered medicament.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chartae
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of charta

before 1000; Old English, for earlier sense of “letter, document” < Medieval Latin; < New Latin, Latin: sheet of paper, document < Greek chártēs papyrus leaf, sheet of paper, literally, something to make marks on; see character

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Example Sentences

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charta chartae

Many hundreds of years ago, he had once told Meggie, people made the bindings for particularly valuable books from the skin of unborn calves, charta virginea non nata, a pretty name for a terrible thing.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

This bill, and those connected with it, are intended to form the magna charta of Hindostan.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

The word charter is from the Latin charta, which means paper.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young

In six words that is the charta of Paris.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

But, as it is sometimes expedient to be thankful for small favors, it may have appeared to Governor Simcoe that the new constitution of the colony was superior to that of England before magna charta.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

It is what the ancient Latinists call charta or chartae.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

In the present age periturae parcere chartae is emphatically an unreasonable demand.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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