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English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

Noun

quart (plural quarts)

  1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
  2. (card games) Four successive cards of the same suit.
    • 1908, Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted:
      A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
  3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  4. (fencing) The fourth defensive position; quarte.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).

Adjective

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Safe, sound; healthy.

Noun

quart (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Safety, soundness; health.
    • c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:
      Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.

Etymology 3

Dialectal alteration of thwart.

Adjective

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

  1. (dialectal) Transverse.
  2. (dialectal) Contentious or quarrelsome.

Adverb

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

  1. (dialectal) Crosswise; across.

Verb

quart (third-person singular simple present quarts, present participle quarting, simple past and past participle quarted)

  1. (dialectal) To thwart.

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Catalan

Catalan numbers (edit)
40[a], [b]
 ←  3 4 5  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: quatre
    Ordinal: quart
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4t
    Multiplier: quàdruple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 4

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quārtus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

quart (feminine quarta, masculine plural quarts, feminine plural quartes)

  1. (ordinal number) fourth

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • quart creixent (waxing quarter moon):
  • quart minvant (waning quarter moon):
  • quart de rodó (quarter round molding):

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

  1. (fractional number) quarter hour
  2. a political subdivision of the parishes La Massana, Ordino, and Sant Julià de Lòria in Andorra
  3. (obsolete) barrel; unit of liquid measure equal to one-quarter of a pipe
  4. (paper) quarto; paper size
  5. (printing) quarto; book size
  6. (castells) a casteller on the fourth level of a castell

Usage notes

  • Particularly in Catalonia, it is common to tell time by counting quarters of the next hour. For example:
  • 2:15 un quart de tres (= dos i quart)
  • 2:30 dos quarts de tres (= dos i mitja)
  • 2:45 tres quarts de tres (= tres menys quart = falta un quart per a les tres)

The equivalents given in parentheses are more common in Valencia and the Balearic Islands.

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French

Etymology

From Latin quārtus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

French numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: quatre
    Ordinal: quatrième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4e, (nonstandard) 4ème
    Multiplier: quadruple
    Fractional: quart
French Wikipedia article on 4

quart (feminine quarte, masculine plural quarts, feminine plural quartes)

  1. (dated) fourth

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Noun

French numbers (edit)
 ←  3 4
    Cardinal: quatre
    Ordinal: quatrième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4e, (nonstandard) 4ème
    Multiplier: quadruple
    Fractional: quart
French Wikipedia article on 4

quart m (plural quarts)

  1. quarter (fraction)
  2. shift (period of work)

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Middle French

Adjective

quart m (feminine singular quarte, masculine plural quarts, feminine plural quartes)

  1. fourth

Synonyms

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French quart, from Latin quartus.

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

  1. (Guernsey) quarter (fraction)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

  1. (Jersey) watch

Old French

Adjective

quart m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

  1. fourth
    le quart jour
    the fourth day

Noun

quart oblique singular, m (oblique plural quarz or quartz, nominative singular quarz or quartz, nominative plural quart)

  1. quarter (1/4)
  2. fourth (the ordinal position corresponding to four)

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