quartan

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkwɔːtən/    美 /ˈkwɔɹtən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fever whose symptoms recur every four days. historical
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms. not-comparable
    — Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

词形变化

quartans plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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