Quartal
Appearance
See also: quartal
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin quārtāle n (literally “one fourth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kvarˈtaːl/, [kʋɑːtʰɑːl], [kfaːtʰɑːl], [kʋɑrtɑːl]
- IPA(key): /kvəˈtaːl/ (often)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Quar‧tal
- Rhymes: -aːl
Noun
[edit]Quartal n (strong, genitive Quartales or Quartals, plural Quartale)
- a quarter year
- (obsolete) city block, district, quartal
- 1822, Gemälde von St. Petersburg, Reutlingen: Verlag des literarischen Comtoirs, page 201:
- Die ganze Stadt ist nemlich gegenwärtig in 12 Stadttheile getheilt, und diese Stadttheile wiederum in 54 Quartale. In jedem dieser Quartale befinden sich kleine Wachthäuser, in der ganzen Stadt 266, für die Straßenwächter, von denen beständig einer auf seinem Posten bei dem Wachthaus stehen muß; und diese werden von dem patrouillirenden Polizey-Militär-Offizier visitirt, der dann alsdann dem Pristaw zu rapportiren hat.
- The whole city currently is divided into 12 city parts, and these city parts again into 54 quartals. In each of these quartals there are small guardposts, in the whole city 266, for the street guards, of which some one continuously has to stand on his post at the guardpost; and these are visited by the patrolling police military officer, who will rapport to the pristav soon.
- 1869, Dr. Laspeyres, “Statistische Studien zur Wohnungsfrage”, in Baltische Monatsschrift, volume 18, number 1, Riga: Jonck & Boliewsky, I. Die Wohnungen Rigas, page 6:
- die 4 Quartale der Stadt sind einander sehr ähnlich, während die Vorstädte sehr wenig und sehr viel mit Häusern besetzte Quartale haben, die in den 3 Vorstädten gleiche Abweichungen von einander zeigen.
- the 4 quartals of the city are very similar to each other, whilst the suburbs have but few and much behoused quartals, which have like differences between the 3 suburbs.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Quartal [neuter, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Further reading
[edit]- “Quartal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Quartal” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Quartal” in Duden online
- Quartal on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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