cuarteado
Spanish, adjective/kwaɾteˈado/
cuarteado is spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish, the 182,048th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuarteado is a Spanish adjective meaning “cracked, broken” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cuartear.
What does cuarteado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cracked, broken
- 2
quartered
- 3
cut up
verb
- 1
past participle of cuartear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Participio de cuartear.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cuarteado
- cuarteada feminine
- cuarteados masculine plural
- cuarteadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuarteado?
- /kwaɾteˈado/
- [kwaɾ.t̪eˈa.ð̞o]
- [kwaɾt̪eˈað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cuarteado in Spanish?
cuarteado appears about once in every 25 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).