cuartillo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional Castilian unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1.2 L.
noun
A traditional Castilian unit of liquid measure, equivalent to about 0.5 L.
noun
A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 0.5–0.75 L depending on the substance measured.
Etymology
From Spanish cuartillo (“¹⁄₄₈ Castilian bushel, &c.”), from Old Spanish quartillo (“little fourth”) in reference to its forming a fourth celemin, from quarto + -illo (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuartilla and quartilho.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cuartillo, quartillo, quartus
Inflected Forms
cuartillos (plural)