quarterly

QUARTERLY

adj. trimestris: a quarterly account or settlement of money ratio computatio trimestris; ratio tertio quoque mense confecta: a quarterly payment *quarta pars annuae mercedis (a quarter’s pay): *pecunia tertio quoque mense solvenda (sum to be paid quarterly).

quarterly (adj.):

I. Containing a quarter: or, consisting of, or divided into, 4 parts.

1. Gen. quadrĭpartītus: the q. changes of the seasons, commutationes temporum q., Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: also, quadrĭfărius: cf. q. divisio, Cass. Varr. 3, 51: also, quadrĭfĭdus: cf. (fig.) q. labor, Claud. Cons. Probr. et Olybr. 268.

2. specific case: containing a q. of a year: trĭmestris: trimestre spatium (a period of three months), Plin. 37, 10, 59.

II. Recurring every q. of a year: *tertio quoque mense (by analogy): or rather, according to the Latin computation, *quarto quoque mense (every 4th month, i. e. at the end of every three): also perh. trimestris: a q. account or settlement of money, *ratio, computatio, trimestris: *ratio tertio quoque mense confecta: a q. payment, i. e. (1) a q.'s pay, *quarta pars annuae mercedis: (2) a sum to be paid q., pensiones trimestres (Ai.): *pecunia tertio quoque mense solvenda, or quolibet spatio trimestri (Ai.), or tertio quoque mense.

quarterly (adv.):

I. In gen. sense, by quarters: quadrĭfărĭam (v. supra); quadrĭfărĭter, Paul. Dig. 38, 10, 10, § 14: quadrĭpartito, Col. 4, 26, 3.

II. Every three months: *quarto quoque mense (like quinto quoque anno, every four years: Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56): to make up an account q.ly, quarto post mense rationem ductare (cf. Pl. Am. 2, 2, 38); or, ducere, Cic Verr. 2, 2, 52; or, inire, Caes. B. G. 7, 71 (cf. id. ib. 6, 19, the acc. is made up, ratio habetur): to render, etc., quarto post mense r. reddere, Pl. Men. 1, 3, 23; referre, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39; rationes referre, id. ib. 5, 24.