quattuor
Latin
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Cardinal: quattuor Ordinal: quārtus Adverbial: quater Proportional: quadruplus Multiplier: quadruplex Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus Collective: quaterniō Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius |
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr (t duplicated), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, neuter plural of *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʻorkʻ), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), and Old English fēower (English four).
The change of e to a is unexplained; the expected form would be *quettuor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷat.tu.or/, [ˈkʷät̪ːuɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwat.tu.or/, [ˈkwät̪ːuor]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Numeral
quattuor (indeclinable)
- four; 4
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.116–118:
- 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.
- Iuppiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris perque hiemes aestusque et inaequalis autumnos et breve ver spatiis exegit quattuor annum.
Derived terms
- quadrangulātus
- quadrāns
- quadrantal
- quadrantālis
- quadrantārius
- quadrātārius
- quadrātē
- quadrātiō
- quadrātum
- quadrātūra
- quadrātus
- quadriangulum
- quadriangulus
- quadridēns
- quadriduānus
- quadriduum
- quadriennis
- quadriennium
- quadriēris
- quadrifāriam
- quadrifāriter
- quadrifārius
- quadrifidus
- quadrifīnālis
- quadrifīnium
- quadrifluus
- quadrifluvium
- quadriforis
- quadrifrōns
- quadrīgae
- quadrīgālis
- quadrigamus
- quadrīgārius
- quadrīgātus
- quadrigeminus
- quadrigōnus
- quadrīgulae
- quadriiugis
- quadriiugus
- quadrilaterus
- quadrilībris
- quadrimanus
- quadrīmātus
- quadrimembris
- quadrimenstruus
- quadrimestris
- quadrīmulus
- quadrīmus
- quadringentī
- quadringentiēs
- quadrīnī
- quadripartiō
- quadripartītiō
- quadripartītō
- quadripartītus
- quadrirēmis
- quadrisēmus
- quadrivium
- quadrō
- quater
- quaternārius
- quaternī
- quaterniō
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: patru, paturu
- Corsican: quattru
- Dalmatian: quater, quatar, kuatri, čatro, quattro
- Emilian: quâter
- Franco-Provençal: quatro
- French: quatuor (borrowing)
- Friulian: cuatri
- Istriot: quatro
- Istro-Romanian: påtru
- Ladin: cater
- Ligurian: quattro
- Lombard: quatar, quater, quasar
- Megleno-Romanian: patru
- Navarro-Aragonese: quatro
- Neapolitan: quatto
- Old French: quatre, catre, qatre
- Italian: quattro
- Old Leonese: quatro
- Old Galician-Portuguese: quatro
- Old Occitan: catre, quatre
- Old Spanish: quatro
- Piedmontese: quatr
- Romagnol: quatar
- Romanian: patru
- Romansch: quatter, quater
- Sabir: quatr'
- Sardinian: batero, bàtoro, batro, baturu, quatru
- Sicilian: quattru
- Tarantino: quatt
- Venetian: quatro
See also
References
- “quattuor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quattuor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quattuor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- four successive days: quattuor dies continui
- to hold out for four months: obsidionem quattuor menses sustinere
- four successive days: quattuor dies continui
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