quarterly

English

A quarterly coat of arms (Hohenzollern)

Etymology

quarter +‎ -ly

Adjective

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months).

   quarterly rent payments

2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

   The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

Derived terms

• quarterly court

Related terms

• quarter day

Translations

occurring once every quarter year

• Bulgarian: тримесечен (trimesečen)
• Catalan: trimestral
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 每季的 (zh) (měijì de)

• Danish: kvartals-
• Dutch: per kwartaal
• Estonian: kvartali-
• Finnish: neljännesvuosittainen (fi), neljännesvuosi-
• French: trimestriel (fr)
• Georgian: კვარტალური (ḳvarṭaluri), სამთვიანი (samtviani), სამთვიური (samtviuri)
• German: vierteljährlich (de), dreimonatlich (de)
• Interlingua: trimestral
• Italian: trimestrale
• Polish: kwartalny (pl)
• Portuguese: trimestral (pt) m or f
• Russian: кварта́льный (ru) (kvartálʹnyj), ежекварта́льный (ru) (ježekvartálʹnyj), трёхме́сячный (ru) (trjoxmésjačnyj)
• Spanish: trimestral (es)
• Tagalog: tatluhang-buwanan
• Thai: รายไตรมาส (raai-dtrai-mâat)
• Turkish: trimestırâl, çeyrekyıllık, üçaylık

divided into four parts crosswise

• Catalan: quarterat
• Danish: kvadreret, firdelt
• Dutch: gevierendeeld (nl)
• French: écartelé (fr)
• German: Vierung (de)
• Italian: inquartato (it)
• Portuguese: esquartelado
• Spanish: acuartelado (es), cuartelado (es)
• Swedish: kvadrerad (sv), fyrdelad (sv)

Adverb

quarterly (not comparable)

1. Once every quarter year (three months).
2. (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
   • 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:

     It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […] .

Derived terms

• quarterly quartered

 

Translations

once every quarter year

• Catalan: trimestralment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 每季地 (zh) (měijì de)

• Dutch: driemaandelijks (nl)
• Estonian: kord kvartalis
• Finnish: neljännesvuosittain (fi), neljänneksittäin, vuosineljänneksittäin
• French: trimestriellement (fr)
• German: vierteljährlich (de), quartalsweise (de)
• Indonesian: per kuartal
• Interlingua: trimestralmente
• Italian: trimestralmente
• Japanese: 四半期毎 (しはんきごと, shihanki-goto)
• Polish: kwartalnie
• Portuguese: trimestralmente
• Russian: покварта́льно (ru) (pokvartálʹno), ежекварта́льно (ru) (ježekvartálʹno), раз в три ме́сяца (raz v tri mésjaca)
• Spanish: trimestralmente (es)
• Swedish: kvartalsvis (sv)
• Turkish: üç ayda bir

Noun

quarterly (plural quarterlies)

1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

Translations

periodical publication

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 季刊 (zh) (jìkān)

• Estonian: kvartaliajakiri
• Finnish: neljännesvuosijulkaisu
• German: Vierteljahresschrift n
• Japanese: 季刊 (ja) (きかん, kikan), 季刊誌 (きかんし, kikanshi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kovara sêmehî f

• Polish: kwartalnik (pl) m
• Russian: трёхме́сячник m (trjoxmésjačnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: ràitheachan m
• Vietnamese: quý san (magazine)

See also

• grand-quarterly