cuarto
Galician

Cuarto of a traditional Galician house
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quartus. Doublet of carto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwaɾto̝/
Derived terms
- cuarto de aseo, cuarto de baño
Noun
cuarto m (plural cuartos)
References
- “quarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “quarto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “cuarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “cuarto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cuarto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
< 3.º | 4.º | 5.º > |
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Cardinal : cuatro Ordinal : cuarto | ||
Alternative forms
- quarto (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin quartus. The sense of room is after a common division of houses (4 or 5 sections). Cognate with English quart. Compare English quarter also.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwarto/, [ˈkwart̪o]
Audio (Latin America) (file) - Hyphenation: cuar‧to
Noun
cuarto m (plural cuartos)
- fourth in a series
- quarter
- the fourth equal part
- part of an animal, as forequarter or hindquarter
- (astronomy) some phases of an heavenly body (Moon, Venus, etc.):
- cuarto creciente ― first quarter
- cuarto menguante ― last quarter
- room, enclosed section of a structure
- Synonyms: ambiente, habitación, pieza, recámara, sala
- (Andalusian, Dominican Republic, slang, plural) money
- (historical) An old coin equivalent to four maravedís.
Derived terms
Hyponyms
- (room): dormitorio
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