quartier

See also: Quartier and quartièr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French quartier. Doublet of quarter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑː(ɹ)tiˈeɪ/
• Homophone: Cartier

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

quartier (plural quartiers)

1. A quarter or district of an urban settlement in France.

Anagrams

• Quirarte

French

Etymology

From quart +‎ -ier, possibly Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tje/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: cartier

Noun

quartier m (plural quartiers)

1. 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

2. (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)

3. piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef)
4. (astronomy) quarter

   le premier quartier de lune ― the first quarter moon

   le dernier quartier de lune ― the last quarter moon

5. (dated) quarter, mercy

Derived terms

• agent de quartier
• poste de quartier
• quartier chaud
• quartier général

Descendants

• → English: quartier
• → German: Quartier
• → Italian: quartiere
• → Portuguese: quartel
• → Romanian: cartier
• → Spanish: cuartel

Further reading

• “quartier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• querrait

Italian

Noun

quartier m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of quartiere

Derived terms

• quartier generale

Middle English

Noun

quartier

1. Alternative form of quarter

Occitan

Alternative forms

• quartièr (Languedoc)

Etymology

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Noun

quartier m (plural quartiers) (Provençal)

1. quarter, neighbourhood

Old French

Noun

quartier oblique singular, m (oblique plural quartiers, nominative singular quartiers, nominative plural quartier)

1. Alternative form of quarter