quartier
See also: Quartier
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑː(ɹ)tiˈeɪ/
- Homophone: Cartier
Audio (Southern England) (file)
French
Etymology
From quart + -ier, possibly Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.tje/
audio (file) - Homophone: cartier
Noun
quartier m (plural quartiers)
- quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood
- Gros-Caillou est l'un des quartiers les plus riches de Paris.
- Gros-Caillou is one of the richest neighborhoods in Paris.
- un quartier ouvrier ― a working-class district
- le quartier chinois ― Chinatown
- (France) impoverished neighbourhood
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef)
- (astronomy) quarter
- le premier quartier de lune ― the first quarter moon
- le dernier quartier de lune ― the last quarter moon
- (dated) quarter, mercy
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “quartier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Old French
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