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Cardinal: quattuor Ordinal: quārtus Adverbial: quater Multiplier: quadruplex, quadruplus Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus Collective: quaterniō Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius |
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷeturtos ~ *kʷetwr̥tos (whence Ancient Greek τέταρτος (tétartos), Sanskrit चतुर्थ (caturtha) and Proto-Germanic *fedurþô), from *kʷetwóres (“four”). Cognate to quadrus (“square”), from sense “four-sided”. For the phonetic development, De Vaan cites Schrijder positing *kʷtwr̥to- > (with voicing of t) *kʷdwr̥to- > *kʷadworto-, followed by dw > w (cf. suāvis). The resulting *kʷawortos would regularly become quārtus (cf. Māvors > Mārs).
quārtus (feminine quārta, neuter quārtum); first/second-declension numeral
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | quārtus | quārta | quārtum | quārtī | quārtae | quārta | |
Genitive | quārtī | quārtae | quārtī | quārtōrum | quārtārum | quārtōrum | |
Dative | quārtō | quārtō | quārtīs | ||||
Accusative | quārtum | quārtam | quārtum | quārtōs | quārtās | quārta | |
Ablative | quārtō | quārtā | quārtō | quārtīs | |||
Vocative | quārte | quārta | quārtum | quārtī | quārtae | quārta |