quadrus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Post-classically attested, thus perhaps a back-formation from quadrō. See also quattuor, quārtus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.drus/, [ˈkʷäd̪rʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.drus/, [ˈkwäːd̪rus]
Adjective edit
quadrus (feminine quadra, neuter quadrum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | quadrus | quadra | quadrum | quadrī | quadrae | quadra | |
Genitive | quadrī | quadrae | quadrī | quadrōrum | quadrārum | quadrōrum | |
Dative | quadrō | quadrō | quadrīs | ||||
Accusative | quadrum | quadram | quadrum | quadrōs | quadrās | quadra | |
Ablative | quadrō | quadrā | quadrō | quadrīs | |||
Vocative | quadre | quadra | quadrum | quadrī | quadrae | quadra |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: caire
- Italian: squadra, quadro
- Old French: esquarre
- Venetian: quadro
- West Iberian
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *quadrellus
- → Catalan: quadre
References edit
- “quadrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadrus 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)
- quadrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “quattuor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505