different between pedestal vs quadra

English

Etymology

From Middle French piédestal, from Italian piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stallo "stand") "footstall".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d?st?l/

Noun

pedestal (plural pedestals)

1. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

3. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
5. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
6. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
7. (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
8. (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
9. (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pedestal (third-person singular simple present pedestals, present participle pedestaling, simple past and past participle pedestaled)

1. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

See also

• pedestal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• pedestal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pedestal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pedestal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• depetals, pleadest, step deal, telepads

Portuguese

Noun

pedestal m (plural pedestais)

1. (architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2. (figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pedes?tal/, [pe.ð?es?t?al]

Noun

pedestal m (plural pedestales)

1. (architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2. (figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)

Further reading

• “pedestal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin quadra.

Noun

quadra (plural quadrae)

1. (architecture) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
2. A fillet, or listel.
3. A frame enclosing a bas relief.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa.d?a/, /ka.d?a/

Noun

quadra m or f (plural quadras)

1. Clipping of quadragénaire.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin quadra.

Noun

quadra f (plural quadre)

1. (nautical) square sail, square rigged
2. square bracket

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

quadra

1. feminine singular of quadro

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

quadra

1. inflection of quadrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor (“four”).

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

quadra f (genitive quadrae); first declension

1. square

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• quadra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quadra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• quadra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin quadra. Compare quadro.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?kwa.ð??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kwa.d??/

Noun

quadra f (plural quadras)

1. block of buildings
2. sport venue; court
3. (poetry) a quatrain
4. season, period, time

5. (lottery): a set of four numbers
6. (card games) four
7. quadrangle
8. large square compound where samba schools practice

See also