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quartan

UK/ˈkwɔːtən/US/ˈkwɔɹtən/

quartan noun: a fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

Noun

quartan (plural quartans)

  1. (historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
    • an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54

Adjective

quartan (not comparable)

  1. Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
    • Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 218

quartan meaning in Tamil and Kannada

quartan in Tamil

நான்கு நாட்களுக்கொருமுறை நிகழ்கின்ற

quartan in Kannada

ಚತುರ್ಥಕ ಜ್ವರ, ಮುಂದೆ ನಾಲ್ಕು ದಿವಸ ಜ್ವರವಿಲ್ಲ

Forms of quartan

pluralquartans

Origin of quartan

From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).

Words that rhyme with quartan

Questions about quartan

What does quartan mean?
Quartan means a fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
What is quartan in Tamil?
Quartan in Tamil is நான்கு நாட்களுக்கொருமுறை நிகழ்கின்ற. See Quartan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quartan?
Quartan can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce quartan?
Quartan is pronounced /ˈkwɔːtən/ (UK).
What is the plural of quartan?
The plural of quartan is quartans.

Words near quartan in the dictionary

  1. quart-pot
  2. quart-pots
  3. quarta
  4. quartal
  5. quartals
  6. quartan
  7. quartana
  8. quartanary
  9. quartane
  10. quartans
  11. Quartararo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quartan (page history and authors); quartan (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quartan (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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