Quartan Definition

kwôrtn
adjective
Occurring every fourth day, counting both days of occurrence.
Webster's New World
noun
A type of malaria in which the paroxysms occur every fourth day.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Quartan

Noun

Singular:
quartan
Plural:
quartans

Origin of Quartan

  • 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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English quartaine from Old French from Latin quārtāna from quārtānus of the fourth from quārtus fourth kwetwer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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