quartane
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin quartus (“fourth”) + -ane. Each molecule of butane has four carbon atoms.
Noun
[edit]quartane (uncountable)
Etymology 2
[edit]See quartan.
Adjective
[edit]quartane (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of quartan.
- 1584, Reginald Scot, The diſcouerie of witchcraft[1], page 58:
- This maketh ſufferance of torments, and (as ſome ſaie) foreſight of things to come, and preſerueth health, as being cold and drie: it maketh men ſubiect to leaneneſſe, and to the quartane ague.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quārtāne
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