cuarto
English
Etymology
(unit of measure): From Spanish cuarto (“quarter-sack”), from Latin quartus (“fourth, quarter”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarta, etc.
Noun
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
- (unit of measure): quarter-sack, half-fanega, half-bushel (Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms
- (unit of measure): cuartillo (1/24 cuarto), medio (1/12 cuarto), celemin (⅙ cuarto), cuartilla (½ cuarto), fanega (2 cuartos), saco (4 cuartos), carga (8 cuartos), cahiz (24 cuartos)
Asturian
Adjective
cuarto
- neuter of cuartu
Galician
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Cuarto of a traditional Galician house
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quartus. Doublet of carto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwaɾto̝/
Noun
cuarto m (plural cuartos)
- bedroom
- Synonym: dormitorio
- (by extension) any room of a house
- Synonyms: estancia, peza
Derived terms
- cuarto de aseo, cuarto de baño
Noun
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
- Cartas
- Cartelos
- catro
- cuarta
- Cuartas
Adjective
cuarto m (feminine singular cuarta, masculine plural cuartos, feminine plural cuartas)
- fourth
Alternative forms
- 4º m, 4ª f (abbreviation)
References
- “quarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “quarto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cuarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cuarto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cuarto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Further reading
- “cuarto” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Spanish
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Alternative forms
- quarto (archaic)
Etymology
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, calqued from English quart. Compare English quarter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwaɾto/ [ˈkwaɾ.t̪o]
Audio (Latin America) (file) - Rhymes: -aɾto
- Syllabification: cuar‧to
Adjective
cuarto (feminine cuarta, masculine plural cuartos, feminine plural cuartas)
- (ordinal number) fourth
Derived terms
- a la cuarta pregunta
Noun
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 gallon, 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
- Synonyms: media fanega, media
- (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
- cuarto creciente ― first quarter
cuarto menguante ― last quarter
- cuarto creciente ― first quarter
- (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, a room
- Synonym of habitación, a bedroom
- Synonym of piso, an apartment
- watch, shift, the time that a soldier, guard, police, &c. 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
- (English unit of liquid volume): onza (1/32 cuarto), gill (⅛ cuarto), pinta (½ cuarto), galón (4 cuartos), barril (126 cuartos)
- (Spanish unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1/24 cuarto), medio (1/12 cuarto), celemín (⅙ cuarto), cuartilla (½ cuarto), fanega (2 cuartos), saco (4 cuartos), carga (8 cuartos), cahíz (24 cuartos)
- (former coin): maravedí (de vellón, ¼ cuarto)
Derived terms
- cuartilla
- cuarto de baño
- cuarto de estar
- cuarto oscuro
- cuarto poder
- cuartucho
- del tres al cuarto
- ni qué ocho cuartos
- primo cuarto
- sacacuartos
- tres cuartos de lo mismo
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kuwarta
- → Ilocano: kuarta
- → Tagalog: kuwarto
- → Tagalog: kuwarta
Further reading
- “cuarto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- caruto, cuatro, curato, trauco