quadrifurcus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From quattuor (“four”) + furca (“fork”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷa.driˈfur.kus/, [kʷäd̪rɪˈfʊrkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwa.driˈfur.kus/, [kwäd̪riˈfurkus]
Adjective edit
quadrifurcus (feminine quadrifurca, neuter quadrifurcum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) having four forks, prongs, or points
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quadrifurcus | quadrifurca | quadrifurcum | quadrifurcī | quadrifurcae | quadrifurca | |
| Genitive | quadrifurcī | quadrifurcae | quadrifurcī | quadrifurcōrum | quadrifurcārum | quadrifurcōrum | |
| Dative | quadrifurcō | quadrifurcō | quadrifurcīs | ||||
| Accusative | quadrifurcum | quadrifurcam | quadrifurcum | quadrifurcōs | quadrifurcās | quadrifurca | |
| Ablative | quadrifurcō | quadrifurcā | quadrifurcō | quadrifurcīs | |||
| Vocative | quadrifurce | quadrifurca | quadrifurcum | quadrifurcī | quadrifurcae | quadrifurca | |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: quarrefourc
References edit
- quadrifurcus 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)
- “carrefour”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.