quadro
See also: quadrò
Catalan
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editquadro m (plural quadros)
- Alternative form of quadre
- 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, chapter IV, in La plaça del Diamant, Barcelona: Club Editor Kapel, published 1984, →ISBN, page 25:
- Tenia un quadro penjat amb un cordill groc i vermell [...]
- There was a painting hanging by a yellow and red string [...]
Etymology 2
editVerb
editquadro
Further reading
edit- “quadro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin quadrum. Compare Portuguese quadro.
Adjective
editquadro (feminine quadra, masculine plural quadri, feminine plural quadre)
Noun
editquadro m (plural quadri, diminutive quadrétto or quadrùccio, augmentative quadróne, pejorative quadràccio)
- painting or picture
- Synonym: dipinto
- square
- Synonym: riquadro
- description or outline or sketch
- fare il quadro della situazione ― to join the dots of the situation (literally, “to make a picture of the situation”)
- (in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)
- cadre
- board (A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.)
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editquadro
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.droː/, [ˈkʷäd̪roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dro/, [ˈkwäːd̪ro]
Verb
editquadrō (present infinitive quadrāre, perfect active quadrāvī, supine quadrātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to make four-cornered, square, make square
- (transitive) to put in order, join properly, complete, perfect
- (intransitive) to agree with, fit with, square with
- (intransitive, of accounts) to accord, agree, fit
- 1890, Ernest Renan, Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum[1], part 1, volume 2, fascicle 4, Paris, pages 552–553:
- Titulos neopunicis elementis scriptos inter tot milia votorum Tanitidi et Baali Hammoni dicatorum fere nullos reperimus; quod quidem mire quadrat cum opinione eorum qui volunt titulos Taniteos ante destructam a Romanis Carthaginem conscriptos fuisse.
- We find almost no inscriptions with Neo-Punic characteristics among the thousands of offerings consecrated to Tanit and Baal Hammon; which fits very well with the opinion of those who consider the inscriptions to Tanit to have been written before Carthage was destroyed by Rome.
- (intransitive, of words) to be fitting, appropriate
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of quadrō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quadro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
- (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -adɾu
- Hyphenation: qua‧dro
Etymology 1
editFrom Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.
Noun
editquadro m (plural quadros)
- (art) painting; picture
- Synonym: pintura
- square
- Synonym: quadrado
- frame:
- rigid, generally rectangular mounting for a painting
- Synonym: moldura
- bicycle frame
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline
- Synonym: frame
- rigid, generally rectangular mounting for a painting
- description; outline
- Synonym: representação
- board, e.g. blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard
- Synonym: painel
- scene (part of an theather act)
- Synonym: cena
- (television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)
- Synonym: esquete
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editquadro
Further reading
edit- quadro on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
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