The story
- Latin · derived fromquartus“fourth”
- Spanish · borrowed fromcuartilla
- English todaycuartilla
From Spanish cuartilla, from cuarto and cuarta (“fourth, quarter”) + -illa (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Latin quartus (“fourth”). Doublet of cuartillo and quartilho.
Words from the same roots
Latinquartus all →
quartquartocotocuartoquartacuartilloquadroonquartanequartaryquartationquartinequasquicentennial
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.