quatro

See also: Quatro

English

Noun

quatro (plural quatros)

  1. 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

Inherited from Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatro (invariable) (ORB, broad)

  1. four

References

  • quatre in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • quatro in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Galician

Galician numbers (edit)
40[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal (reintegrationist): quatro
    Cardinal (standard): catro
    Ordinal (reintegrationist): quarto
    Ordinal (standard): cuarto
    Ordinal abbreviation:
    Multiplier (reintegrationist): quádruplo
    Multiplier (standard): cuádruplo

Numeral

quatro (reintegrationist norm)

  1. four

Further reading

  • quatro” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Interlingua

Numeral

quatro

  1. four

Istriot

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatro

  1. four

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

Numeral

quatro

  1. (Old Lombard) four

Descendants

  • Lombard: quatter, quatar, quater, quasar, cuàter, cuatro

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese quatro.

Numeral

quatro

  1. four (4)
    Coordinate terms: três, cinco

References

Mirandese

Mirandese numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: quatro
    Ordinal: quarto

Etymology

From Old Leonese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

Numeral

quatro

  1. four

Old Leonese

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwatɾo/

Numeral

quatro

  1. four
    • 1294, Document from Espinareda de la Vega[1]:
      Lunes quatro dias andados del mes de Jeneyro.
      Monday four days have gone by the month of January.

References

  1. ^ Staaff, Erik (1907) Étude sur L’Ancien Dialecte Léonais d’après des Chartes du XIIIe Siècle, Heidelberg, page 167

Old Spanish

Old Spanish cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    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

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwatɾo/

Numeral

quatro

  1. four
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v:
      é dixom ami ppħza al ſp̃u aſſi diz el ſeñor dios de de [sic] 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 [winds], o breath, and breathe into these slain, [that] they [may] live.’”

Descendants

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: quatro
    Ordinal: quarto
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º,
    Multiplier: quádruplo
    Fractional: quarto
    Group: quarteto

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwa.tɾu/

  • (Minho) IPA(key): /ˈka.tɾu/
  • Rhymes: -atɾu
  • Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro m or f

  1. four
    • 2006, Daniela Zaitz, Direito & know-how, Jurua Editora, →ISBN, page 31:
      O autor conclui que podem ser objeto do know-how quatro tipos de elementos, considerados isoladamente ou em conjunto: a habilidade técnica, a experiência técnica, os conhecimentos técnicos e os processos.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

quatro m (plural quatros)

  1. four

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kuatru
  • Indo-Portuguese: quátor
  • Kabuverdianu: kuátu
  • Kadiwéu: cwaatolo
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: kwat
  • Kristang: kuatu
  • Macanese: quatro
  • Nheengatu: kuaru
  • Papiamentu: kuater
  • Principense: kwatu
  • Sãotomense: kwatlu, kwatu

See also

Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text)
ás dois, duque três, terno quatro, quadra cinco, quina seis, sena sete, bisca, manilha
oito nove dez valete dama, rainha rei jóquer, curinga

Spanish

Numeral

quatro

  1. obsolete spelling of cuatro

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Italian quattro.

Numeral

quatro

  1. four