quartier
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French quartier. Doublet of quarter.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editquartier (plural quartiers)
- A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom quart + -ier, possibly Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editquartier m (plural quartiers)
- quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood
- Le Gros-Caillou est l’un des quartiers les plus riches de Paris.
- Gros-Caillou is one of the richest neighborhoods in Paris.
- un quartier ouvrier ― a working-class district
- le quartier chinois ― Chinatown
- (France, chiefly in the plural) impoverished neighbourhood, often suburban
- Des jeunes issus des quartiers sont à l’origine de ces vols ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef)
- (astronomy) quarter
- le premier quartier de lune ― the first quarter moon
- le dernier quartier de lune ― the last quarter moon
- (dated) quarter, mercy
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: quartier
- → German: Quartier
- → Italian: quartiere
- → Portuguese: quartel
- → Romanian: cartier
- → Spanish: cuartel
Further reading
edit- “quartier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editItalian
editNoun
editquartier m (apocopated)
Derived terms
editMiddle English
editNoun
editquartier
- Alternative form of quarter
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editOld French
editNoun
editquartier oblique singular, m (oblique plural quartiers, nominative singular quartiers, nominative plural quartier)
- Alternative form of quarter
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