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(r)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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto X, 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: ква́рта f (kvárta)
• 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

See also

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

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Catalan

Catalan ordinal numbers

<  3r	4t	5è  >
Cardinal : quatre     Ordinal : quart     Multiplier : quàdruple

Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

Adjective

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

1. fourth

Usage notes

When quart is the ordinal number of a century or of a regnal name of a monarch or pope, it is written using Roman numerals following the noun. Thus Joan Quart is written Joan IV.

For most fractional numbers, the ordinal number is used to indicate the denominator of the fraction. Quart and its forms share the job of indicating fractional fourths with quarter and its forms. Exceptions to this rule include mig (“half”), terç (“third”), quarter (“quarter”), milionèsim (“millionth”), bilionèsim (“billionth”), ....

The feminine form of the ordinal is usually used as the collective noun for a set of like objects of that size. Instead of quart, qüern is used. Exceptions to the usual rule include parell (“set of 2”), qüern (“set of 4”), centenar (“set of 100”), grossa (“set of 144”), miler (“set of 1000”), and milenar (“1000”).

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. 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.

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/

• audio

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• Homophones: car, quarts
• Rhymes: -aʁ

Adjective

French numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: quatre     Ordinal: quatrième     Multiplier: quadruple     Fractional: quart

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

1. (dated) fourth

Derived terms

• quart-monde

Noun

French numbers ^(edit)

←  3	4
Cardinal: quatre     Ordinal: quatrième     Multiplier: quadruple     Fractional: quart

quart m (plural quarts)

1. quarter (fraction)
2. (Quebec) 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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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

• Audio (Jersey)

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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)