quarterly
/kwˈɔɹtɚli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
(of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
noun
A periodical publication that appears four times per year.
adv
adv
In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
Example Sentences
- "quarterly rent payments"
- "The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data."
- "The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable."
- "“We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week."
- "It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […]."
- "Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *kʷtwr̥to- Proto-Italic *kʷeturtos Latin quārtus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Latin quārtārius Anglo-Norman quarterbor. Middle English quarter English quarter Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English quarterly From quarter + -ly (adjectival).