cuatro

From Spanish cuatro. Doublet of four and quatre.

cuatro (plural cuatros)

1. Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).

• cuatrista

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• turaco, curato, auctor, outcar, actour, cuarto

Inherited from Latin quattuor. Compare Catalan quatre.

cuatro

1. four

From Latin quattuor.

cuatro (indeclinable)

1. four

• quatro, quattro (Western orthographies)

From Latin quattuor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatro/, [ˈkwatro], [ˈkwatru], [ˈkwatrʷ]

cuatro

1. alternative form of cuàter (“four”)

Inherited from Old Spanish quatro, from Latin quattŭor (“four”), from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), French quatre, Old English feower (English four).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɾo/ [ˈkwa.t̪ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -atɾo
• Syllabification: cua‧tro

cuatro

1. four

cuatro m (plural cuatros)

1. a four-stringed guitar with the first string a fifth below, instead of a fourth above, the second

• → Cebuano: kwatro
• → English: cuatro
• → Tagalog: kuwatro

• “cuatro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• caruto
• cuarto
• curato
• trauco