quartier

See also: Quartier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French quartier.

Noun

quartier (plural quartiers)

1. A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.

Anagrams

• Quirarte

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French

Etymology

From quart +‎ -ier, possibly (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tje/

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Noun

quartier m (plural quartiers)

1. quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood
2. (France) Impoverished neighbourhood
3. piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef)
4. (astronomy) quarter
5. (dated) quarter, mercy

Derived terms

• quartier général

Descendants

• → English: quartier
• → Italian: quartiere
• → Portuguese: quartel
• → Spanish: cuartel

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• querrait

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Italian

Noun

quartier m (uncountable)

1. Apocopic form of quartiere

Derived terms

• quartier generale

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Old French

Noun

quartier oblique singular, m (oblique plural quartiers, nominative singular quartiers, nominative plural quartier)

1. Alternative form of quarter