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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.

Inherited from Latin quattuor.

quatro (invariable) (ORB, broad)

  1. four
  • quatre in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • quatro in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
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
Galician Wikipedia article on 4

quatro (reintegrationist norm)

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

quatro

  1. four

From Latin quattuor.

quatro

  1. four

From Latin quattuor.

quatro

  1. (Old Lombard) four

From Portuguese quatro.

quatro

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

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

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quatro

  1. four

From Latin quattuor.

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.
  1. ^ Staaff, Erik (1907) Étude sur L’Ancien Dialecte Léonais d’après des Chartes du XIIIe Siècle, Heidelberg, page 167
Old Spanish cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : quatro
    Ordinal : quarto
  • iiij (representation in Roman numerals)

From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

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

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

  • Rhymes: -atɾu
  • Hyphenation: qua‧tro

quatro m or f

  1. four

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.

quatro m (plural quatros)

  1. four

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.

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 rei jóquer, curinga

quatro

  1. Obsolete spelling of cuatro.

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

quatro

  1. four