quarte1 (s.xiii)

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quarte1 (s.xiii)

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

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  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  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  i 396
( 1382 )  Item a Richard de la Mulle .iiij. bushelz frumenti, .j. quarte avenarum  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?))  i 229
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  jus de fimetere et jus de bourace, de chescon une quarte  333
( 1388-94; MS: s.xv1 )  une pote d'une galon, une pote d'une potelle, trois potes - chescune d'une quart  193.13
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 [...]  36.29
3implementquart pot, vessel that measures out a quarter
( MS: s.xiii )  potus: quarte  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)  267
quarte an
1timequarter of a year, trimester, three months
( c.1375?; MS: s.xv1 )  Semaigne, quinsizme, trois semaignez, mois, quarte an, demi an  (D) 18.5
quart#1  quartaine  quartener  quartenur  quarter  quatre#1  quatrisme  quattuor 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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