different between chariot vs quadriga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??æ???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??æ?i?t/, /?t????i?t/
• Hyphenation: char?i?ot

Noun

chariot (plural chariots)

1. A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
2. A light four-wheeled carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
3. (xiangqi) rook

Hypernyms

• (obsolete): car, cart

Hyponyms

• (Roman, 2-horse): biga
• (Roman, 3-horse): triga
• (Roman, 4-horse): quadriga

Related terms

• charret
• charrette
• (driver): charioteer
• car

Translations

Verb

chariot (third-person singular simple present chariots, present participle charioting, simple past and past participle charioted)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To convey by, or as if by, chariot.
2. (intransitive) To ride in a chariot.

Anagrams

• Torahic, Torchia, haricot

French

Alternative forms

• charriot (1990 reform spelling)

Etymology

From Old French chariot, from char or from charrier +? -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?jo/

Noun

chariot m (plural chariots)

1. trolley
2. carriage (of a computer printer)

   chariot bloqué

3. (Quebec) shopping cart

Further reading

• “chariot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• haricot
• torchai

English

Etymology

From Latin qu?dr?gae, literally "four yoked", from quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw?d??i?.??/, /kw??d?i?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kw??d?i.??/, /kw??d?ai.??/

Noun

quadriga (plural quadrigae or quadrigas)

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
   • 1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425

     In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

   • 1898 (May), A. W. Hands, "Chats on Roman coins with young collectors", Monthly Numismatic Circular 66, col. 2719

     On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]

2. (historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.

Translations

See also

• quadriga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadr?gae.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kw??d?i.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kwa?d?i.?a/

Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrigues)

1. quadriga

Further reading

• “quadriga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “quadriga” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “quadriga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quadriga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin qu?dr?gae.

Noun

quadriga

1. (rare) quadriga (Roman racing chariot)

Declension

Synonyms

• nelivaljakko

Italian

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ga.

Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrighe)

1. quadriga

Further reading

• quadriga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?dri?.?a/, [k?ä?d??i??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa?dri.?a/, [kw??d??i???]

Noun

quadr?ga f (genitive quadr?gae); first declension

1. quadriga

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• quadriga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadriga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quadriga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• quadriga in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• quadriga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin quadr?gae.

Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrigas)

1. quadriga

Further reading

• “quadriga” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.