different between quarte vs quarto

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

Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”)

Noun

quarto (countable and uncountable, plural quartos)

1. (paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
   1. (Britain) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
2. (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.

Synonyms

• (paper size): 4to, 4º
• (book size): Q

Translations

See also

• foolscap

Anagrams

• Quatro, quatro

Italian

Etymology

From Latin quartus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quarti, feminine plural quarte)

1. fourth

Noun

quarto m (plural quarti, feminine quarta)

1. fourth (the one in fourth position)

Noun

quarto m (plural quarti)

1. quarter (fraction; part of a town), fourth (fraction)

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Latin

Numeral

qu?rt?

1. dative masculine singular of qu?rtus
2. dative neuter singular of qu?rtus
3. ablative masculine singular of qu?rtus
4. ablative neuter singular of qu?rtus

References

• quarto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quarto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quarto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• 4º (abbreviation, ordinal only)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quartus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?kwa?.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kwa?.tu/, [?k?ä?.t??]
• Hyphenation: quar?to

Adjective

quarto m (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)

2. ordinal form of quatro; fourth

Noun

quarto m (plural quartos)

2. quarter; fourth (one of four equal parts)
4. room (subdivision within a building)
6. (specifically) bedroom (room used to sleep in and keep personal objects)
8. (historical) quarter (unit of volume for liquids equivalent to a quarter of a tun)

Synonyms

• (room): cómodo, câmara

Spanish

Adjective

quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)

1. Archaic form of cuarto.

Noun

quarto m (plural quartos)

1. Archaic form of cuarto.