• (RP) IPA: /kwɔːt/
• (America) IPA: /kwɔɹt/, /kɔɹt/

From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus.

quart (plural quarts)

1. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
2. (cards) Four successive cards of the same suit.
3. (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 14:

     Camber did possesse the Westerne quart.

4. (fencing) The fourth defensive position; quarte.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the book or page number):

     [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

• French: pinte
• German: Quart
• Portuguese: quarto
• Russian: ква́рта
• Spanish: cuarta, cuarto de galón

From Middle English quarte, querte, from Old Norse kyrt, *kvirt, neuter of Old Norse kyrr, kvirr, from Proto-Germanic *kwerruz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂-.

quart

1. (dialectal, obsolete) Safe, sound; healthy.

quart (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Safety, soundness; health.
   • c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC ↗, book I, page 80 ↗, column 1:

     Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.

Dialectal alteration of thwart.

quart

1. (dialectal) Transverse.
2. (dialectal) Contentious or quarrelsome.

quart

1. (dialectal) Crosswise; across.

quart (quarts, present participle quarting; simple past and past participle quarted)

1. (dialectal) To thwart.

• enPR: kăʀ, käʀ, IPA: /kar/, /kɑːr/, [kaʁ]

1. A comune in Aosta Valley, Italy

• French: Quart
• Russian: Кар

• enPR: kwăʀt, kwärt, IPA: /kwart/, /kwɑɹt/, /kwɑːt/, [kwaɾt]

1. A municipality in Gironès, Comarques Gironines

• Russian: Кварт

1. Surname:
   1. Josie Alice Quart (1895–1980), Canadian senator