Other forms: quarts
A quart is a liquid measure of two pints. A quart of milk, half a quart, quarts and gallons.
It is a quarter of a gallon, which is where the name comes from, and the British and American versions differ because the pints do. Trying to put a quart into a pint pot is the old phrase for attempting the impossible.
1nounquartA liquid measure of two pints.
“He stopped at the corner store to buy a quart of milk.”
quart is a measure.
Latin quartus means a fourth, since a quart is a quarter of a gallon.
Latin
quartus — one-fourth
Old French
quarte
Middle English
quart
English, today
quart
From Middle English quart, quarte, from Old French quarte, carte, from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Spanish cuarto (“quarter; room, quarters”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA