quadrat
English
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editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 2 below.
Noun
editquadrat (plural quadrats)
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editVerb
editquadrat (third-person singular simple present quadrats, present participle quadratting, simple past and past participle quadratted)
- To place a quadrat, or divide into quadrats.
Etymology 2
editAttested since 1683. Possibly from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), from Latin quadrātum (“square”). Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 1 above. So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.
Noun
editquadrat (plural quadrats)
- (letterpress typography, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing.[1], volume 2, pages 222–23:
- If his Title be ſhort, he Sets it in the middle of the Line, by Setting Quadrats on both ſides: If his Title be long, he Sets the middle Line in the middle: If it make three or more Lines, he Indents the firſt with an m Quadrat, and the other with two m Quadrats.
- 1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:
- The footsticks may be a trifle shorter than the width of two pages and the gutter; for as there should always be a line of quadrats, or a reglet cut to measure, at the foot of each page, the footstick may be a pica shorter without danger, on this account, of any thing falling out, when the form is lifted and it thus prevents the side and foot sticks from binding when locked up.
- (Egyptology) A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.
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editCatalan
editEtymology
editProbably borrowed from Latin quadrātus. Cf. caire, quadre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editquadrat m (plural quadrats)
Participle
editquadrat (feminine quadrada, masculine plural quadrats, feminine plural quadrades)
Adjective
editquadrat (feminine quadrada, masculine plural quadrats, feminine plural quadrades)
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editFurther reading
edit- “quadrat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “quadrat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “quadrat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “quadrat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
editVerb
editquadrat
Tatar
editNoun
editquadrat
Adjective
editquadrat
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