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- Spanish · borrowed fromcuarta“fourth”
- English todaycuarta
Borrowed from Spanish cuarta (“fourth”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarto, &c.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cuarta
Today it means: A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, a quarter-ferrado equivalent to about 3–4.5 L depending on the substance measured. Full definition →
Spanish cuarta