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English

cuarta

Cuarta comes from Spanish cuarta ‘fourth’, and goes back to Latin quartus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquartus1
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuarto2‘one-fourth, a fourth, a quarter’
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuarta3‘fourth’
  4. Englishtodaycuarta3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Spanish cuarto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Spanish cuarta
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English cuarta

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquartusWiktionary, Spanish cuarto
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuartoWiktionary, Spanish cuarta‘one-fourth, a fourth, a quarter’
  3. Spanishc. 1500–presentcuartaWiktionary, English cuarta‘fourth’
  4. EnglishtodaycuartaWiktionary, English cuarta

Linked words

through Latin quartus

quarter, quart, 14 more

Today it means

noun A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, a quarter-ferrado equivalent to about 3–4.5 L depending on the substance measured.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “cuarta”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Spanish cuarto, Spanish cuarta. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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