English
quarterer
From quarter + -er.
Formed from quarter + -er
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥tós
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Latin quartus ‘fourth’
Latin quartarius ‘a quarter measure’
Anglo-Norman quarter
Middle English quarter
English quarter
Today it means
noun One of a group of agricultural workers who were entitled to keep a quarter of the harvest as payment, yielding up the rest to their lord.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “quarterer”. 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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