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cuartillo

Pronunciation: /kwaɾˈtiʝo/

“cuartillo” is a Spanish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. cuartillo, quarter-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 1.2 L)
  2. cuartillo, quarter-azumbre (a traditional unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.5 L)
  3. cuartillo, quarter-real (a former coin or unit of account in Spain and parts of Latin America)

In Spanish

  1. Medida de capacidad de líquidos antigua, que era la cuarta parte de un azumbre, y equivalía a 0,50125 litros.
  2. Nombre que se le daba en Venezuela a una moneda de níquel equivalente a la octava parte del Bolívar.

Etymology

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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