quarte

See also: Quarte, and quarté

English

Alternative forms

• carte

Etymology

From French quarte.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

Noun

quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.

Anagrams

• aquert, quatre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁt/

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Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (music) fourth (music interval)

   quarte juste ― perfect fourth

2. (fencing) quarte

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Adjective

quarte

1. fourth

Italian

Adjective

quarte

1. feminine plural of quarto

Noun

quarte f

1. plural of quarta

Latin

Numeral

quārte

1. vocative masculine singular of quārtus

References

• “quarte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (Jersey) quart

Old French

Adjective

quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth (ordinal adjective)

Portuguese

Verb

quarte

1. inflection of quartar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative