quart

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

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.

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

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

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

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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 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)