quadratura

Italian

Etymology

From Latin quadrātūra.

Noun

quadratura f (plural quadrature)

1. squaring

   La quadratura del cerchio - The squaring of the circle.

2. square, panel
3. (art) quadrature

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Latin

Etymology

From quadrō (“make square”) +‎ -tūra, from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷa.draːˈtuː.ra/, [kʷäd̪räːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.draˈtu.ra/, [kwäd̪räˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

quadrātūra f (genitive quadrātūrae); first declension

1. a squaring, making square, quadrature
2. (by extension) a square

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quadrātūra	quadrātūrae
Genitive	quadrātūrae	quadrātūrārum
Dative	quadrātūrae	quadrātūrīs
Accusative	quadrātūram	quadrātūrās
Ablative	quadrātūrā	quadrātūrīs
Vocative	quadrātūra	quadrātūrae

Related terms

• quadrātārius
• quadrātē
• quadrātiō
• quadrātor
• quadrātum

• quadrātus
• quadrō
• quadrula
• quadrus

Descendants

• English: quadrature
• French: quadrature
• Italian: quadratura
• Russian: квадратура (kvadratura)

References

• “quadratura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadratura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadratura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.