quarte
English edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Noun edit
quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)
- (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.
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quarte f (plural quartes)
Further reading edit
- “quarte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
quarte
Italian edit
Adjective edit
quarte
Noun edit
quarte f
Latin edit
Numeral edit
quārte
References edit
- “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.
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Noun edit
quarte f (plural quartes)
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Adjective edit
quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)
- fourth (ordinal adjective)
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Verb edit
quarte
- inflection of quartar: