Where does “quartier” come from?

quartier (Middle Dutch) comes from Old French quartier, from Latin quartarius, from Latin quārtus, from Proto-Indo-European kʷeturtos, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwóres, from Proto-Indo-European kʷe- — and.

Ancestry of “quartier”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchquartierAlternative form of quarter
2Latinquartariusquartarius, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.14 L
3Latinquārtusfourth
4Proto-Indo-Europeankʷeturtos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeankʷetwóresfour
6Proto-Indo-Europeankʷe-and

Words derived from “quartier”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷe- →