cuarto
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit](unit of measure): From Spanish cuarto (“quarter-sack”), from Latin quartus (“fourth, quarter”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarta, etc.
Noun
[edit]cuarto (plural cuartos)
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 27.8 L.
- (historical) A former Spanish coin (until 1866), worth one eighth of a real.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (unit of measure): cuartillo (1⁄24 cuarto), medio (1⁄12 cuarto), celemin (1⁄6 cuarto), cuartilla (1⁄2 cuarto), fanega (2 cuartos), saco (4 cuartos), carga (8 cuartos), cahiz (24 cuartos)
Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cuarto
Galician
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Cardinal (standard): catro Cardinal (reintegrationist): quatro Ordinal (standard): cuarto Ordinal (reintegrationist): quarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4º Multiplier (standard): cuádruplo Multiplier (reintegrationist): quádruplo | ||
Galician Wikipedia article on 4 |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto, from Latin quartus. Doublet of carto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuarto m (plural cuartos)
- bedroom
- Synonym: dormitorio
- (by extension) any room of a house
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuarto m (plural cuartos)
- fourth; quarter (one of four equal parts of a whole)
- Synonym: cuartel
- fourth (person or thing in the fourth position)
Related terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cuarto (feminine cuarta, masculine plural cuartos, feminine plural cuartas)
Alternative forms
[edit]- 4º m, 4ª f (abbreviation)
References
[edit]- “quarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “quarto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuarto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cuarto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cuarto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Further reading
[edit]- “cuarto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Spanish
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Cardinal: cuatro Ordinal: cuarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º Multiplier: cuádruple Fractional: cuarto | ||
Spanish Wikipedia article on 4 |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin quartus. Doublet of cuarta. The sense of room is after a common division of houses (4 or 5 sections). As a unit of English measure, calque of English quart. Compare English quarter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cuarto (feminine cuarta, masculine plural cuartos, feminine plural cuartas)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuarto m (plural cuartos)
- fourth (in a series)
- fourth, quarter (one of four equal divisions of a whole)
- quarter-hour (one of four equal divisions of an hour)
- (historical) watch (one of the four approximately equal divisions of the night, especially for shifts of watchmen)
- (military) watch (one of the four equal divisions of soldiers, guards, police, &c. for routine patrols)
- English or American quart (a unit of liquid measure equal to 1⁄4 galón, equivalent to about 0.95 L)
- (historical) cuarto, quarter-sack (a traditional unit of dry measure equal to 1⁄4 saco, equivalent to about 27.8 L)
- quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of quadrapeds and birds)
- (historical) quarter (one of the four main divisions of the body of criminals for public display)
- (sewing) quarter (one of four main pieces of cloth used to tailor a garment)
- (astronomy) quarter (one of the four main phases of a heavenly body as it waxes and wanes in the sky)
- (genealogy) line, lineage (any of the four main lines of ancestry through one's various grandparents)
- quarters (various structures used for dwelling)
- Synonym of sala (“room”)
- Synonym of habitación (“bedroom”)
- Synonym of piso (“apartment”)
- watch, shift (the time that a soldier, guard, police, etc. spends on patrol)
- lot (a piece of real estate, especially one of the divisions of a large piece of land being put to sale)
- service (particularly to a king or queen)
- cuarto militar de su majestad Bob VII.
- military service to His Majesty Bob VII
- (chiefly in the plural) well-proportioned limbs (especially in discussion of art and horses)
- (historical) cuarto (a former copper Spanish coin)
- (Andalusian, Dominican Republic, slang, in the plural) Synonym of dinero (“money”)
- (slang, in the plural) Synonym of dinero (“a fortune”)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (English unit of liquid volume): onza (1⁄32 cuarto), gill (1⁄8 cuarto), pinta (1⁄2 cuarto), galón (4 cuartos), barril (126 cuartos)
- (Spanish unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1⁄24 cuarto), medio (1⁄12 cuarto), celemín (1⁄6 cuarto), cuartilla (1⁄2 cuarto), fanega (2 cuartos), saco (4 cuartos), carga (8 cuartos), cahíz (24 cuartos)
- (former coin): maravedí (de vellón, 1⁄4 cuarto)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: kuwarto
Further reading
[edit]- “cuarto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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