different between quarte vs quartet

English

Alternative forms

• carte

Etymology

French quarte

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.

Anagrams

• aquert, quatre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?t/

Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (music) fourth (music interval)

2. (fencing) quarte

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Adjective

quarte

1. fourth

Italian

Adjective

quarte

1. feminine plural of quarto

Noun

quarte f

1. plural of quarta

Latin

Numeral

qu?rte

1. vocative masculine singular of qu?rtus

References

• quarte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (Jersey) quart

Old French

Adjective

quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth (ordinal adjective)

English

Alternative forms

• quartette

Etymology

From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw??(?)?t?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

quartet (plural quartets)

1. (music) A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.

2. (music) The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts.

3. (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.

4. Any group of four, especially people.

   Synonyms: foursome, tetrad; see also Thesaurus:quartet

   • 2015, Tony Holmes, American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945

     The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918.

Translations

See also

• barbershop quartet

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kw???t?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kw?r?t?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kwa??tet/

Noun

quartet m (plural quartets)

1. quartet

Further reading

• “quartet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quartet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “quartet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quartet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Noun

quartet m (plural quartets)

1. quartet