FromMiddle English quart quarte Old French quarte carte Latin quartus ( “ one-fourth ” ) . Cognate withSpanish cuarto ( “ quarter; room, quarters ” ) .
quart (plural quarts
A unit of liquidcapacity equal to twopints ; 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. ( card games ) successive cards of the samesuit .1908 The laws of piquet adopted :A tierce major is good against any other tierce; aquart minor is good against a tierce major.
( obsolete ) fourth ; aquarter ; hence, a region of the earth.( fencing ) position ;quarte .1837 Thomas Carlyle ,The French Revolution: A History [ … ] (please specify |volume=I to III) , London:Chapman and Hall ,→OCLC (please specify the book or page number) :[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce andquart ; intent to skewer one another.
a unit of liquid capacity
Four successive cards of the same suit
FromMiddle English quarte querte Old Norse kyrt *kvirt Old Norse kyrr kvirr ( “ quiet, still, peaceful ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *kwerruz ( “ calm, satisfied, pacified ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- ( “ heavy ” ) . Cognate withScots 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 ” ) .
quart (comparative morequart ,superlative mostquart )
( dialectal , obsolete ) Safe ,sound ;healthy .quart (uncountable
( 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. [ … ] i.e. ,William Rastell ], editor,The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, [ … ] , London: [ … ] Iohn Cawod , Iohn Waly, andRicharde Tottell , published30 April 1557 ,→OCLC page80 , 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 goodquart .
Dialectal alteration ofthwart
quart (comparative morequart ,superlative mostquart )
( dialectal ) Transverse .( dialectal ) Contentious orquarrelsome .quart (comparative morequart ,superlative mostquart )
( dialectal ) Crosswise ;across .quart (third-person singular simple present quarts present participle quarting simple past and past participle quarted
( dialectal ) thwart .Inherited fromLatin quārtus ( “ fourth ” ) .
quart (feminine quarta masculine plural quarts feminine plural quartes
( ordinal number ) fourth quart m (plural quarts
( fractional number ) quarter houra political subdivision of the parishesLa Massana ,Ordino , andSant Julià de Lòria inAndorra ( obsolete ) barrel ; unit of liquid measure equal to one-quarter of apipe ( paper ) quarto ; paper size( printing ) quarto ; book size( castells ) casteller on the fourth level of acastell Particularly in Catalonia, it is common to tell time by counting quarters of thenext hour. For example: 2:15un quart de tres (=dos i quart ) 2:30dos quarts de tres (=dos i mitja ) 2:45tres 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.
FromLatin quārtus
quart (feminine quarte masculine plural quarts feminine plural quartes
( dated ) fourth quart m (plural quarts
quarter (fraction)shift (period of work)quart m (feminine singular quarte masculine plural quarts feminine plural quartes
fourth FromOld French quart Latin quartus
quart m (plural quarts
( Guernsey ) quarter ( fraction ) (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
quart m (plural quarts
( Jersey ) watch quart m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte
fourth lequart jour the fourth day quart oblique singular , m (oblique plural quarz or quartz nominative singular quarz or quartz nominative plural quart
quarter (1/4)fourth (the ordinal position corresponding to four)
