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cuartillo.

cuartillo, quarter-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 1.2 L)

9 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/kwaɾˈtiʝo/[kwaɾˈt̪i.ʝo]/kwaɾˈtiʝo/[kwaɾˈt̪i.ʝo]
  1. cuartillo, quarter-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 1.2 L)

    historical · masculine
  2. cuartillo, quarter-azumbre (a traditional unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.5 L)

    historical · masculine
  3. cuartillo, quarter-real (a former coin or unit of account in Spain and parts of Latin America)

    historical · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Spanish quartillo (“little fourth”), from quarto + -illo (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Equivalent to cuarto (“fourth”) + -illo (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of cuartilla. Cognate with Galician cuartillo and Portuguese quartilho.

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