quart

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a unit of liquid measure equal to two pints

   She poured a quart of milk into the saucepan.

Simplified etymology

Quart came through Old French quarte from Latin quarta pars “fourth part,” ultimately from quattuor “four.” It denotes a unit equal to one quarter of a gallon and shares its numerical root with quarter and quartet.

From Old French quarte, from Latin quarta (pars) ('fourth part'), from quartus ('fourth'), from quattuor ('four').

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