quattuor

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Latin[edit]

Latin cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : quattuor
    Ordinal : quārtus
    Adverbial : quater
    Multiplier : quadruplex
    Distributive : quaternī
Latin Wikipedia article on quattuor

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From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʿork'), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (tessares), and Old English fēower (English four).

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quattuor (indeclinable)

  1. (cardinal) four; 4
    • ca. 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 116-118
      Iuppiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris perque hiemes aestusque et inaequalis autumnos et breve ver spatiis exegit quattuor annum.
      "Venerable Jove brought together the time of spring and through winter, summer, variable autumn, and brief spring completed the year in four seasons."
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Leviticus 11:23
      quicquid autem ex volucribus quattuor tantum habet pedes execrabile erit vobis
      "But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you."

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