quattuor
LatinEdit
| 40 | ||
| ← 3 | IV 4 |
5 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: quattuor Ordinal: quārtus Adverbial: quater Multiplier: quadruplex, quadruplus Distributive: quadrīnī, quaternī Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius | ||
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr (*t duplicated preceding *-w-), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, neuter plural of *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Sanskrit चतुर् (catur), Old Armenian չորք (čʿorkʿ), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), and Old English fēower (English four).
The change of *e to a is unexplained; the expected form would be *quettuor.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷat.tu.or/, [ˈkʷät̪ːuɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwat.tu.or/, [ˈkwät̪ːuor]
NumeralEdit
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 termsEdit
- 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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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