Where does “quartan” come from?
quartan (English) comes from Old French quartaine, from Latin quartana, from Latin quartanus, from Latin quartus, from Latin quattuor, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput — to seize, hold.
quartan (English): A fever whose symptoms recur every four days;...
Definitions
- A fever whose symptoms recur every four days;...
Ancestry of “quartan”, step by step
quartan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French quartaine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | quartaine | quartan; only used in "fievre quartaine", meaning... |
| 2 | Latin | quartana | nominative feminine singular of quārtānus;... |
| 3 | Latin | quartanus | fourth |
| 4 | Latin | quartus | fourth, the ordinal number after "tertius" and... |
| 5 | Latin | quattuor | four; 4 |
| 6 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |