- quire (n.1)
- early 13c., "set of four folded pages for a book, pamphlet consisting of a single quire," from Anglo-French quier, Old French quaier, from Vulgar Latin *quaternus, from Latin quaterni "four each," from quater "four times." Meaning "standard unit for selling paper" first recorded late 14c.
- quire (n.2)
- early form of choir (q.v.).