quart

See also: Quart

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French quart, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɔːt/
• 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.
   • Spenser

     Camber did possess the western quart.

Translations

a unit of liquid capacity

• Afrikaans: kwart
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: رُبَع غَالُون m (rubaʕ 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) (kuātuō), 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

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

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

Adjective

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

1. 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. 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

Further reading

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

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quārtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

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• Homophones: car, quarts
• Rhymes: -aʁ

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. (Quebec) shift (period of work)

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

• 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 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)