quadro
See also: quadrò
CatalanEdit
NounEdit
quadro m (plural quadros)
- Alternative form of quadre
- 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, chapter IV, in La plaça del Diamant, Barcelona: Club Editor Kapel, published 1984, →ISBN, page 25:
- Tenia un quadro penjat amb un cordill groc i vermell [...]
- There was a painting hanging by a yellow and red string [...]
VerbEdit
quadro
- first-person singular present indicative form of quadrar
Further readingEdit
- “quadro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin quadrum. Compare Portuguese quadro.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
quadro (feminine quadra, masculine plural quadri, feminine plural quadre)
NounEdit
quadro m (plural quadri)
- painting or picture
- Synonym: dipinto
- square
- Synonym: riquadro
- description or outline or sketch
- fare il quadro della situazione ― to join the dots of the situation (literally, “to make a picture of the situation”)
- (in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)
- cadre
- board (A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.)
DescendantsEdit
VerbEdit
quadro
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
quadrō (present infinitive quadrāre, perfect active quadrāvī, supine quadrātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) I make four-cornered, square, make square.
- (transitive) I put in order, join properly, complete, perfect.
- (intransitive) I agree with, fit with, square with.
- (intransitive, of accounts) I accord, agree.
- (intransitive, of words) I am fitting, appropriate.
ConjugationEdit
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadro 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)
- quadro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
- (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
- Pede Certo - Digital Latin Metre[2], 2011
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -adɾu
- Hyphenation: qua‧dro
NounEdit
quadro m (plural quadros)
- (art) painting; picture
- Synonym: pintura
- square
- Synonym: quadrado
- frame
- Synonym: moldura
- description; outline
- Synonym: representação
- board, e.g. blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard
- Synonym: painel
Further readingEdit
- quadro on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt