quatre

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French quatre.

Alternative forms

• cater

Noun

quatre (plural quatres)

1. (archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
   • 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia

     The first best throw upon the dice is esteemed aces, as it stops the six-point in the outer table, and secures the cinque in your own, whereby your adversary's two men upon your ace-point cannot get out with either quatre, cinque, or six.

Anagrams

• aquert, quarte, raquet

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.tɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.tɾe/
• Rhymes: -atɾe

Numeral

Catalan cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quatre     Ordinal : quart     Multiplier : quàdruple
Catalan Wikipedia article on quatre

quatre m, f

1. (cardinal) four
2. a few

Derived terms

• quatre gats (“only a few people”)
• dir quatre coses (“to tell off”)

Noun

quatre m (plural quatres)

1. four

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French

Etymology

From Old French quatre, qatre, catre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• (alone or preceding a vowel) IPA^(key): /katʁ/
• (preceding a consonant) IPA^(key): /katʁə/, /kat/

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Numeral

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quatre     Ordinal : quatrième
French Wikipedia article on quatre

quatre

1. four

Derived terms

• quatrième

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: katr, kat
• English: quatre (borrowing)
• Guianese Creole: katr, kat
• Karipúna Creole French: kat
• Louisiana Creole French: kat
• Seychellois Creole: kat
• Tayo: katr

Anagrams

• traque, traqué

Further reading

• “quatre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French quatre.

Numeral

quatre (invariable)

1. four (4)

Descendants

• French: quatre

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Norman

Norman cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quatre

Alternative forms

• quat' (Jersey)
• quate (continental Norman)

Etymology

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

Numeral

quatre

1. (Guernsey, cardinal) four

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Provençal quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkatre/

Numeral

quatre

1. four

Related terms

• quaranta
• quart
• quatren

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Old French

Alternative forms

• catre
• qatre

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatre

1. four

Descendants

• Middle French: quatre
  • French: quatre
    • Antillean Creole: katr, kat
    • English: quatre (borrowing)
    • Guianese Creole: katr, kat
    • Karipúna Creole French: kat
    • Louisiana Creole French: kat
    • Seychellois Creole: kat
    • Tayo: katr
• Norman: quate (continental), quatre (Guernsey), quat' (Jersey)
• Picard: quate
• Walloon: cwate