quartane

Obsolete spelling of quartan.

Adjective

  1. Obsolete spelling of quartan.
    • This maketh ſufferance of torments, and (as ſome ſaie) foreſight of things to come, and preſerueth health, as being cold and drie: it maketh men ſubiect to leaneneſſe, and to the quartane ague. - 1584, Reginald Scot,...

Origin

See quartan.

Noun

  1. butane

Origin

From Latin quartus (“fourth”) + -ane. Each molecule of butane has four carbon atoms.

Derived

quartene