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quart¹

  • /kwɔːt/ UK
  • /kwɔɹt/ US
  • /kɔɹt/ US
  • /kwoːt/ Australia

Sounds like court stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

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

noun 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. Four successive cards of the same suit. 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. Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.
  4. The fourth defensive position; quarte. [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.

quart²

  • /kwɔːt/ UK
  • /kwɔɹt/ US
  • /kɔɹt/ US
  • /kwoːt/ Australia

Sounds like court stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

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”).

adjective more quart · most quart

  1. dialectal, obsolete Safe, sound; healthy.

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Safety, soundness; health. 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.

quart³

  • /kwɔːt/ UK
  • /kwɔɹt/ US
  • /kɔɹt/ US
  • /kwoːt/ Australia

Sounds like court stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

Dialectal alteration of thwart.

adjective more quart · most quart

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

adverb more quart · most quart

  1. dialectal Crosswise; across.

verb quarts · quarting · quarted

  1. dialectal To thwart.

Quart⁴

  • /kar/
  • /kɑːr/
  • [kaʁ]

proper noun

  1. A comune of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.

Quart⁵

  • /kwart/
  • /kwɑɹt/
  • /kwɑːt/
  • [kwaɾt]

Where it comes from

From quārtum (“fourth”), that is town on the fourth Roman mile from the city of Girona, v.DCVB

proper noun

  1. A municipality of Gironès, Comarques Gironines, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Quart⁶

proper noun

  1. A surname
  2. Josie Alice Quart (1895–1980), Canadian senator

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