Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quartan

/ˈkwɔɹtən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables: quar-tan
IPA: /ˈkwɔɹtən/

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

adj

Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.

Example Sentences

"an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head."
"Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague."

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: quartāna

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkwɔɹtən/
British English: /ˈkwɔːtən/

Inflected Forms

quartans (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

quotidian tertian

Rhymes With

morton shorten horton orton lawton gorton

Questions

How do you pronounce quartan?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkwɔɹtən/.
What does quartan mean?: A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
Where does quartan come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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