quartern
QUARTERN
*modii quarta pars or quadrans.
*modii quarta pars or quadrans.
quartern: a measure of capacity:
I. Of liquids: 1-4th of a pint (= a gill):
1. quartārius, m. (1-4th of the sextarius, which was almost a pint, v. Dict. of Antiq.): a q. of wine, q. vini, Liv. 5, 47.
2. quadrans, antis, m.: q. vini, Cels. 3, 15.
II. Of solids: (1) of flour (= 1/4th of a peck, by measure, or 1/4th of a stone, i. e. 3-1/2 lbs. by weight), quartarius farris, Plin. 18, 3, 3 (the etym. equiv. in the sense of a quarter of the unit understood): more exactly (as equiv. measure) *quadrans modii, or *quarta pars modii: (2) a quartern loaf (= 4 lbs. of bread), pānis quadrĭlībris: cf. Pl. Aul. 5, 2.
I. Of liquids: 1-4th of a pint (= a gill):
1. quartārius, m. (1-4th of the sextarius, which was almost a pint, v. Dict. of Antiq.): a q. of wine, q. vini, Liv. 5, 47.
2. quadrans, antis, m.: q. vini, Cels. 3, 15.
II. Of solids: (1) of flour (= 1/4th of a peck, by measure, or 1/4th of a stone, i. e. 3-1/2 lbs. by weight), quartarius farris, Plin. 18, 3, 3 (the etym. equiv. in the sense of a quarter of the unit understood): more exactly (as equiv. measure) *quadrans modii, or *quarta pars modii: (2) a quartern loaf (= 4 lbs. of bread), pānis quadrĭlībris: cf. Pl. Aul. 5, 2.