quadri-
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quadri-
- Four.
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four
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Borrowed from Latin quadri- (“four”).
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quadri-
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- “quadri-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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quadri-
- Alternative form of quadr-
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From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥-, with -twr- developing into -dr-; compare the full form quattuor, ultimately from *kʷetwóres. Analogous to Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-) vs. τέτταρες (téttares, “four”).[1]
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- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “quadrāns”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 395