quarto
See also: Quarto
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quartus (“fourth”).
Noun edit
quarto (countable and uncountable, plural quartos)
- (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).
- (UK) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
- (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
- 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:
- Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.
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quarto
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- “quarto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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Cardinal: quattro Ordinal: quarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4º Adverbial: quattro volte Multiplier: quadruplo Collective: tutti e quattro Fractional: quarto | ||
Italian Wikipedia article on 4 |
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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quarti, feminine plural quarte)
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quarto m (plural quarti)
- quarter (part of a town)
- (fractional number) quarter, fourth
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quārtō
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- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quarto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Neapolitan edit
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quarto m (plural quarte)
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- Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 167[1]
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- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkwaɹ.tʷ/
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtu, (Brazil) -aʁtu
- Hyphenation: quar‧to
Etymology 1 edit
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Cardinal: quatro Ordinal: quarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º Multiplier: quádruplo Fractional: quarto Group: quarteto | ||
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From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus.
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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)
Noun edit
quarto m (plural quartos)
- (fractional number) quarter; fourth (one of four parts of a whole)
- room (subdivision within a building)
- (specifically) bedroom (room used to sleep in and keep personal objects)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:
- Não devia estar num quarto particular?
- Shouldn't he be in a private room?
- (historical) quarter (unit of volume for liquids equivalent to a quarter of a tun)
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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)
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quarto m (plural quartos)