quire

(kwīr)

noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb quired, quiring

Archaic choir

noun

a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock, the twentieth part of a ream

Origin: ME quair < OFr quaer, book of loose pages < VL quaternum, paper packed in lots of four pages < L quaterni, four each: see quaternary

See quire in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Abbr. qr. or q. A set of 24 or sometimes 25 sheets of paper of the same size and stock; one twentieth of a ream.
A collection of leaves of parchment or paper, folded one within the other, in a manuscript or book.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English quayer, four double sheets of paper

Origin: , from Old French quaer

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *quaternus

Origin: , from Latin quaternī, set of four, four each

Origin: , from quater, four times; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots

noun & v.
Archaic

Variant of choir.

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