quart

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

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• Homophone: court (General American, without the /w/ sound in 'quart')
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

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

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, stanza 14:

     Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.

4. (fencing) The fourth defensive position; quarte.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr (“quiet, still, peaceful”), from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz (“calm, satisfied, pacified”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂- (“heavy”). Cognate with Scots quert, quart (“alive, in good health, sound”), Scots querty (“vivacious, active, in good spirits”), Danish kvær (“quiet”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvar, kvær, kverr (“still, quiet”), Icelandic kyrr (“still, calm, unmoving”).

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) Safe, sound; healthy.

quart (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Safety, soundness; health.
   • c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Unfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:

     Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.

Dialectal alteration of thwart.

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

1. (dialectal) Transverse.
2. (dialectal) Contentious or quarrelsome.

quart (comparative more quart, superlative most quart)

1. (dialectal) Crosswise; across.

quart (third-person singular simple present quarts, present participle quarting, simple past and past participle quarted)

1. (dialectal) To thwart.

Inherited from Latin quārtus (“fourth”).

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

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• Rhymes: -aɾt

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

1. (ordinal number) fourth

• (fraction): quarter

• quart creixent (waxing quarter moon):
• quart minvant (waning quarter moon):
• quart de rodó (quarter round molding):

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

• 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.

• quartà
• quartal

• quartilla

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

From Latin quārtus.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ/

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• Homophones: car, quarts
• Rhymes: -aʁ

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

1. (dated) fourth

• quart-monde

quart m (plural quarts)

1. quarter (fraction)
2. shift (period of work)

• quatre
• quatuor

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

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

1. fourth

• quatriesme

From Old French quart, from Latin quartus.

quart m (plural quarts)

1. (Guernsey) quarter (fraction)

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quart m (plural quarts)

1. (Jersey) watch

quart m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth

   le quart jour

   the fourth day

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)