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

• quarto

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: 4º     Multiplier (reintegrationist): quádruplo     Multiplier (standard): cuádruplo
Galician Wikipedia article on 4

Numeral

quatro (reintegrationist norm)

1. four

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Numeral

quatro

1. four

Istriot

Alternative forms

• quattro

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatro

1. four

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• (Old Lombard) IPA^(key): [ˈkwatɾo]

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

• https://belamaquista.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/unga-dois-tres-1-2-3/

Mirandese

Etymology

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

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:

     Lunes quatro dias andados del mes de Jeneyro.

     Monday four days have gone by the month of January.

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.’”

Related terms

• quarto

Descendants

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

Portuguese

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.tɾu/

• Rhymes: -atɾu
• Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro m or f

1. four

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.

Noun

quatro m (plural quatros)

1. four

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quatro.

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	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