quater

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Latin[edit]

Latin numbers (edit)
40[a], [b]
 ←  3 IV
4
5  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: quattuor
    Ordinal: quārtus
    Adverbial: quater
    Multiplier: quadruplex, quadruplus
    Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus
    Collective: quaterniō
    Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Adverb[edit]

quater (not comparable)

  1. four times
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.241–242:
      “[...] Quater ipsō in līmine portae
      substitit, atque uterō sonitum quater arma dedēre.”
      Four times – at the very threshold of the gateway! – it hesitated; and also four times the weapons within its womb gave up a clatter.”
      (Despite repeated difficulties and multiple warning signs the Trojans persist in pulling the wooden horse into the city.)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

quater

  1. Alternative form of quarter

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • quatter (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology[edit]

From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Number[edit]

quater

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) four