different between quartan vs quartane

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quart?na (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quart?nus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw??t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kw??t?n/

Noun

quartan (plural quartans)

1. (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 54:

     an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.

Adjective

quartan (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.

   • Pork, of all meats, is […] naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

Further reading

• quartan fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”) +? -ane. Each molecule of butane has four carbon atoms.

Noun

quartane (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, obsolete) butane

Latin

Adjective

qu?rt?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of qu?rt?nus