quart

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 14:

     Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.

Translations

a unit of liquid capacity

• Afrikaans: kwart
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رُبَع غَالُون‎ m (rubaʿ ḡālūn)
• Armenian: կվարտ (hy) (kvart)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ква́рта f (kvárta)
• Bulgarian: ква́рт m (kvárt)
• Catalan: quart (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夸脫 (zh), 夸脱 (zh) (kuātuō)

• Czech: kvart m
• Danish: kvart, fjerdedel gallon
• Dutch: quart (nl)
• Esperanto: kvarto (eo)
• Estonian: kvart
• Finnish: neljännesgallona
• French: pinte (fr) f
• Galician: cuarta f
• Georgian: კვარტა (ḳvarṭa)
• German: Quart n
• Greek: τέταρτο του γαλονιού n (tétarto tou galonioú)
• Hungarian: kvart (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
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• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: クォート (kwōto)
• Korean: 쿼트 (kwoteu)
• Latin: duō sextāriī m (one quart is approximately equal to two sextarii)
• Latvian: kvarta f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kuata
• Norman: quarte f
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: کوارت‎ (fa) (kwart)
• Polish: kwarta (pl) f
• Portuguese: quarto (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ква́рта (ru) f (kvárta)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairteal m, seipinn f
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cuarta (es) f, cuarto de galón m
• Swedish: quart (sv)
• Thai: ควอร์ต (kwôt)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ква́рта (uk) f (kvárta)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: gvahdoz

Four successive cards of the same suit

• Bulgarian: ква́ртa f (kvárta)

See also

• you can't get a quart into a pint pot

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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

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkwart/

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

Adjective

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

1. (ordinal number) fourth

Synonyms

• (fraction): quarter

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.

Derived terms

• quartà
• quartal

Related terms

• quartilla

Further reading

• “quart” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

From Latin quārtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

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• Homophones: car, quarts
• Rhymes: -aʁ

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

Derived terms

• quart-monde

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)

Derived terms

• au quart de tour
• les trois quarts du temps
• quart de finale
• quart d'heure

 

Related terms

• quatre
• quatuor

Further reading

• “quart”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Adjective

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

1. fourth

Synonyms

• quatriesme

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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

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Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

1. (Jersey) watch

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Old French

Adjective

quart m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth

   le quart jour

   the fourth day

Noun

quart 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)