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quarte1 (s.xiii)
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quarte1 (s.xiii)

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  FEW:  quartus 2/ii,1423a Gdf:  carte 1 1,789c / quarte 1 6,484a GdfC: ∅ TL: carte 1 2,56 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  quarte  TLF:  quarte  OED:  quart n.1  MED:  quart(e n.  DMLBS:  quartus 2 2619a

Although word gender often cannot be reliably determined in Anglo-Norman, there seems to have been a feminine substantive, derived from Latin quarta, which was separate from the substantival use of quartus (see quart1), and which was also found in Continental French.

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1num.quarter, one of four equal parts: 
( MS: s.xiv2 )  pernez la quarte de une pelote  Rom 37 515
2volumeunitquarter of the standard measure of grain etc. (usually quarter of a bushel): 
( 1321 ) un quarte de furment, un quart de orge et un quarte de feves  Actes privés 207
( 1321-22 )  les blez qe les ditz Robert et Adam avoint coillez del moldre des ditz molins, a l'amontance de .xl. quartes de divers blez  Rot Parl1 i 396
( 1382 )  Item a Richard de la Mulle .iiij. bushelz frumenti, .j. quarte avenarum  Will Bere and Burley 55
♦volumeunitquarter of the standard measure of liquids (usually quarter of a gallon, i.e. two pints): 
( MS: s.xiii )  lagene: (C) quartez (var. (B: s.xiii) quartet; (R: s.xiii) quartés (l. quartes?))  TLL i 229
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  jus de fimetere et jus de bourace, de chescon une quarte  Pop Med 333
( 1388-94; MS: s.xv1 )  une pote d'une galon, une pote d'une potelle, trois potes - chescune d'une quart  Lett & Pet 193.134.13
♦timequarter of an hour (?): 
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  la noete del vendredy [...] avoit le dit prince d'Engleterre prymes novelles [...] qe [...]. Et un quarte devaunt jour, le samady proschein ensuant, le dit prince [...]  Anon Chr1 36.29
3implementquart pot, vessel that measures out a quarter: 
( MS: s.xiii )  potus: quarte  Gloss Garland 172
( MS: 1419 )  jalouns, poteux et quartes partie sount debruseez, et ascuns sount merchiez taunt come ils sount vertz, et aprés longement useez, et par seccheresce sount restreinz (=shrunken)  Lib Alb 267
quarte an
timequarter of a year, trimester, three months: 
( c.1375?; MS: s.xv1 )  Semaigne, quinsizme, trois semaignez, mois, quarte an, demi an  Liber Donati (D) 18.5

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See also:

quart1  quartaine  quartener  quartenur  quarter  quatre1  quatrisme  quattuor 
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