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This PDF file, "Reference to space in colonial Quiché":
http://home.snafu.de/duerr/PDF_Doku/Space.pdf

...has a reference to the cuatrillo and tresillo, uses a Greek lower case
"ε" (U+03B5) for tresillo and a "g" for cuatrillo.  

"The spelling in these three editions is based on the conventions of 
16th- and 17th-century Spanish.  It is defective..."

"Special graphemes are used inconsistently for glottalized consonants..."

Words like "cuatrillo" are also used for musical notation in Spanish,
http://www.mrjam.com/cmm/mp3/contlm%20copia/udlm1/ud14.htm

>From this page, quadruplet is expressed as cuatrillo in Spanish:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/WWW/lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out
-www/glossary.html
quadruplet 
ES: cuatrillo, I: quartina, F: quartolet, D: Quartole, NL: kwartool, DK: 
kvartol, 
S: kvartol

Best regards,

James Kass
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