cuarterón
Spanish, noun/kwaɾteˈɾon/
cuarterón is spelled C-U-A-R-T-E-R-Ó-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written Spanish, the 279,992nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuarterón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cuarteron, Spanish quarterpound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 115 g)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cuarta parte de algo dividido en partes iguales”.
What does cuarterón mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecuarteron, Spanish quarterpound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 115 g)
- 2
masculinequadroon (a person who is three-quarters white, having one Native American or black grandparent)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cuarta parte de algo dividido en partes iguales. 2. Cuarta parte de una libra. 3. Postigo (puertecilla de una ventana). 4. Cada uno de los cuadros que hay entre los peinazos de las puertas y ventanas.
adjective: 1. Nacido en América de mestizo y española, o de español y mestiza (díjose así por tener un cuarto de indio y tres de español).
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 cuarterón
- cuarterones plural
- cuarterona feminine
- cuarteronas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuarterón?
- /kwaɾteˈɾon/
- [kwaɾ.t̪eˈɾõn]
- [kwaɾt̪eˈɾõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cuarterón
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cuarterón in Spanish?
cuarterón appears about once in every 65 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).