quadrus
Latin
editEtymology
editPost-classically attested, thus perhaps a back-formation from quadrō. See also quattuor, quārtus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷa.drus/, [ˈkʷäd̪rʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.drus/, [ˈkwäːd̪rus]
Adjective
editquadrus (feminine quadra, neuter quadrum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | quadrus | quadra | quadrum | quadrī | quadrae | quadra | |
genitive | quadrī | quadrae | quadrī | quadrōrum | quadrārum | quadrōrum | |
dative | quadrō | quadrae | quadrō | quadrīs | |||
accusative | quadrum | quadram | quadrum | quadrōs | quadrās | quadra | |
ablative | quadrō | quadrā | quadrō | quadrīs | |||
vocative | quadre | quadra | quadrum | quadrī | quadrae | quadra |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: caire
- Italian: squadra, quadro
- Old French: esquarre
- Venetan: quadro
- West Iberian
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *quadrellus
- → Catalan: quadre
References
edit- “quadrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadrus 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)
- quadrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “quattuor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505