"quarter" in seven languages
Meaningquarter
Spanish
cuarto
/ˈkwaɾto/
masc.inherited
Also means 'room': cuarto de baño 'bathroom'.
French
quart
/kaʁ/
masc.inherited
Italian
quarto
/ˈkwarto/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
quarto
/ˈkwahtu/
masc.inherited
Quarto also means 'bedroom'.
Romanian
sfert
/sfert/
neut.other source · Slavic četvrĭtĭ 'fourth'
Catalan
quart
/kwart/
masc.inherited
English
quarter
/ˈkwɔɹtɚ/
from Latin/French · Old French quartier, from Latin QUARTĀRIUM (from QUARTUS)
English → ItalianquarterquartoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
QUARTUM‘fourth’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The sisters use the plain ordinal 'fourth'. Trap: French quartier, the twin of English quarter, means 'neighbourhood', as in the Latin Quarter.
English relatives: quart, quarter, quartet
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In a sentence
- esLlego en un cuarto de hora.
- frJ'arrive dans un quart d'heure.
- itArrivo tra un quarto d'ora.
- ptChego daqui a um quarto de hora.
- roAjung într-un sfert de oră.
- caArribo d'aquí a un quart d'hora.
- enI'll be there in a quarter of an hour.