quatro
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English
Noun
quatro (plural quatros)
- Alternative form of cuatro
- 1995, Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago:
- By the late 1940s Jules had invented a quatro pan after observing a family playing parang, a Venezuelan-derived Christmas music traditional to Trinidad which is generally performed by vocalists accompanied by guitars, quatros, mandolins, a one-string box bass, chac-chacs, and scrapers.
Anagrams
Franco-Provençal
Etymology
Numeral
quatro
References
Galician
| 40[a], [b] | ||
| [a], [b] ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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| Cardinal (reintegrationist): quatro Cardinal (standard): catro Ordinal (reintegrationist): quarto Ordinal (standard): cuarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4º Multiplier (reintegrationist): quádruplo Multiplier (standard): cuádruplo | ||
| Galician Wikipedia article on 4 | ||
Numeral
quatro (reintegrationist norm)
Further reading
- “quatro” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Interlingua
Numeral
quatro
Istriot
Alternative forms
Etymology
Numeral
quatro
Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese quatro.
Numeral
quatro
References
Mirandese
Etymology
From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Numeral
quatro
Old Spanish
| < 3 | 4 | 5 > |
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| Cardinal : quatro Ordinal : quarto | ||
Alternative forms
- iiij (representation in Roman numerals)
Etymology
From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
Numeral
quatro
- four
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v:
- é dixom ami ppħza al ſp̃u aſſi diz el ſeñor dios de de quatro uenga ſpiritu e ſofle eneſtos matados. e. biuan.
- And he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; ‘Thus says the Lord God: come from four , o breath, and breathe into these slain, they live.’”
Related terms
Descendants
Portuguese
| 40 | ||
| ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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| Cardinal: quatro Ordinal: quarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º Multiplier: quádruplo Fractional: quarto Group: quarteto | ||
| Portuguese Wikipedia article on 4 | ||
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -atɾu
- Hyphenation: qua‧tro
Numeral
quatro m or f
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.
Noun
quatro m (plural quatros)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.
Descendants
See also
| Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text) | ||||||
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Spanish
Numeral
quatro
Venetian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Italian quattro.
Numeral
quatro