quarte

• carte

From French quarte.

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t

quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.

• aquert, quatre

• IPA^(key): /kaʁt/

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quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (music) fourth (music interval)

   quarte juste ― perfect fourth

2. (fencing) quarte

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

quarte

1. fourth

quarte

1. feminine plural of quarto

quarte f

1. plural of quarta

quārte

1. vocative masculine singular of quārtus

• “quarte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (Jersey) quart

quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth (ordinal adjective)

quarte

1. inflection of quartar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative