Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
quartan en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈkwɔɹtən/ (US)
- /ˈkwɔːtən/ (UK)
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”).
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 218:
Coordinates
tertian · quotidian
quartan en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkwɔɹtən/ (US)
- /ˈkwɔːtən/ (UK)
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”).
Meanings
-
(historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
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.
1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:
Forms