# quarto
## English
### Etymology

From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

### Noun

quarto (countable and uncountable, plural quartos)
* (paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
** (UK) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
* (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
** 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.

#### Synonyms

* (paper size): 4to, 4º
* (book size): Q

#### Related terms

* bad quarto
* sexagesimo-quarto
* vicesimo-quarto
* vigesimo-quarto

#### See also

* foolscap

### Anagrams

* Quatro, quatro

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

quarto
* fourthly

### Further reading

* “quarto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin quartus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkwar.to/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arto
* Hyphenation: quàr‧to

### Adjective

quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quarti, feminine plural quarte)
* (ordinal number) fourth

### Noun

quarto m (plural quarti)
* quarter (part of a town)
* (fractional number) quarter, fourth

#### Related terms

* capoquarto
* quarta
* quartetto
* quartiere
* quartile
* quartina
* quartino
* quarto d'ora
* quarto di finale
* quartogenito
* quartultimo

## Latin
### Numeral

quārtō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quārtus

### References

* “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* quarto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* quarto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuarto.

### Noun

quarto m (plural quarte)
* apartment

#### Derived terms

* quartino

### References

* Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 167

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwaʁ.tu/ [ˈkwah.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwaʁ.tu/ [ˈkwah.tu]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈkwaɾ.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkwaʁ.tu/ [ˈkwaχ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwaɻ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkwaɾ.tu/
* (Rural Central Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwaɹ.tʷ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtu, (Brazil) -aʁtu
* Hyphenation: quar‧to

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus.

#### Adjective

quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)
* (ordinal number) fourth

#### Noun

quarto m (plural quartos)
* (fractional number) quarter; fourth (one of four parts of a whole)
* room (subdivision within a building)
* (specifically) bedroom (room used to sleep in and keep personal objects)
** 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:Não devia estar num quarto particular?Shouldn't he be in a private room?
* (historical) quarter (unit of volume for liquids equivalent to a quarter of a tun)

##### Synonyms

* (room): cómodo, câmara

##### Derived terms

* quarta, quartinho, quartilho

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

quarto
* first-person singular present indicative of quartar

## Spanish
### Adjective

quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)
* Archaic form of cuarto.

### Noun

quarto m (plural quartos)
* Archaic form of cuarto.