cuartillo

Meanings

1. A traditional Castilian unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1.2 L.
2. A traditional Castilian unit of liquid measure, equivalent to about 0.5 L.
3. A former coin in Spain and parts of Latin America equal to a quarter-real.

1. A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 0.5–0.75 L depending on the substance measured.
2. A traditional Galician unit of land area reckoned as the amount needed to sow a cuartillo of seed, varying from 2.5–30 m² in different parts of Galicia.

Etymology

From Spanish cuartillo (“¹⁄₄₈ Castilian bushel, &c.”), from Old Spanish quartillo (“little fourth”) in reference to its forming a fourth celemin, from quarto + -illo (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuartilla and quartilho.