Etymology

quartern

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Today it means: A quarter part; one fourth. Full definition →

Middle English quartern, quarteroun, quartroun ← Anglo-Norman quatroun ← Old French quarter
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromquarter“fourth”
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromquatroun“quarter of a hundred”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromquartern, quarteroun, quartroun
  4. English todayquartern

From Middle English quartern, quarteroun, quartroun, from Anglo-Norman quatroun (“quarter of a hundred”), from Old French quarter (“fourth”).

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