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Where does “quartier” come from?

Quartier comes from French quartier, derived from French quart, which developed from the Latin suffix -arius attached to quattuor, meaning four.

quartier (English): A quarter or district of an urban settlement in...

Definitions

  1. A quarter or district of an urban settlement in...

Ancestry of “quartier”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquartierquarter, district , neighbourhood; Impoverished...
2French-ierused to form the names of trees bearing a...
3Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
4Latin-āre—
5Proto-Italic-āōForms primarily denominative verbs
6Proto-Indo-European-eh₂yétiCreates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
7Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
8Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-—
9Chichewaiyehe, she
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