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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw??t/, /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

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.
3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

Translations

See also

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kwa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kwart/

Adjective

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

1. fourth

Usage notes

When quart is the ordinal number of a century or of a regnal name of a monarch or pope, it is written using Roman numerals following the noun. Thus Joan Quart is written Joan IV.

For most fractional numbers, the ordinal number is used to indicate the denominator of the fraction. Quart and its forms share the job of indicating fractional fourths with quarter and its forms. Exceptions to this rule include mig (“half”), terç (“third”), quarter (“quarter”), milionèsim (“millionth”), bilionèsim (“billionth”), ....

The feminine form of the ordinal is usually used as the collective noun for a set of like objects of that size. Instead of quart, qüern is used. Exceptions to the usual rule include parell (“set of 2”), qüern (“set of 4”), centenar (“set of 100”), grossa (“set of 144”), miler (“set of 1000”), and milenar (“1000”).

Synonyms

• (fraction): quarter

Derived terms

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

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

1. 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

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin qu?rtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/
• Homophones: car, quarts
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

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

1. (dated) fourth

Derived terms

• quart-monde

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• quatre
• quatuor

Further reading

• “quart” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

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

1. fourth

Synonyms

• quatriesme

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French quart, from Latin quartus.

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

1. (Guernsey) quarter (fraction)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

quart m (plural quarts)

1. (Jersey) watch

Old French

Adjective

quart m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth

Noun

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)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (obsolete) A pustule.
2. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.

Verb

quat (third-person singular simple present quats, present participle quatting, simple past and past participle quatted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To satiate.
   • 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28,

     Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ?tart me, that I may come the ?ooner to quatting——Hu?h ! here?s Si?ter ; what the deuce brought her !

2. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To relinquish, forsake, give up.

   Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
3. (Wales and Southwest England, dialectal, intransitive) To squat or crouch down.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.

Etymology 2

Clipping of quaternary.

Noun

quat (plural quats)

1. (chemistry) A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.

Adjective

quat (not comparable)

1. Quaternary.

Etymology 3

See khat.

Noun

quat (countable and uncountable, plural quats)

1. Alternative spelling of khat.

Middle English

Adjective

quat

1. Alternative form of wothe

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kw?d?, whence also Old English cw?ad.

Noun

qu?t m

1. mud
2. dirt

Descendants

• German: Kot