Etymograph

English

quartilho

Quartilho comes from Portuguese quartilho ‘quartilho, Portuguese pint’, from quarto ‘fourth’, and ultimately from Latin quārtus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquārtus1
  2. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500quarto1
  3. Portuguesec. 1500–presentquarto2‘fourth’
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–presentquartilho2‘quartilho, Portuguese pint’
  5. Englishtodayquartilho2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Portuguese quarto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English quartilho

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquārtusWiktionary, Portuguese quarto
  2. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500quartoWiktionary, Portuguese quarto
  3. Portuguesec. 1500–presentquartoWiktionary, English quartilho‘fourth’
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–presentquartilhoWiktionary, English quartilho‘quartilho, Portuguese pint’
  5. EnglishtodayquartilhoWiktionary, English quartilho

The story

From Portuguese quartilho, from quarto (‘fourth’) + -ilho (‘-elle: forming diminutives’), in reference to its size being one-fourth the canada.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Every English word from Latin quārtus

Today it means

noun A traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume, varying in size between 350 and 530 mL.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “quartilho”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Portuguese quarto. 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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