different between quadrant vs quadrans

English

Alternative forms

• quadraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrantem, accusative singular of quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kw?d?r?nt, IPA^(key): /?kw?d.??nt/

Noun

quadrant (plural quadrants)

1. One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
2. (mathematics) One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
3. (geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
4. (nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
5. (college basketball) One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.

Translations

See also

• octant
• sextant

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kw??d?ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kw??d?an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kwa?d?ant/

Noun

quadrant m (plural quadrants)

1. quadrant

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ns (“fourth part of something, quarter”).

Noun

quadrant m (plural quadrants)

1. quadrant

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

quadrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of quadr?

English

Etymology

From Latin quadr?ns. Doublet of quadrant.

Noun

quadrans (plural quadrantes)

1. A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.drans/, [?k?äd??ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kwa.drans/, [?kw??d???ns]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?ad.rans/, [?k?är?ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kwad.rans/, [?kw?d?r?ns]

Noun

quadr?ns m (genitive quadrantis); third declension

1. A fourth part of something, quarter, farthing.
2. The fourth part of an as, quarter of an as, three unciae.
3. A quarter-digit.
4. (as a liquid measure) The fourth part of a sext?rius, quarter of a sext?rius.
5. (as a weight) A quarter of a Roman pound.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• quadrantal
• quadrant?lis
• quadrant?rius

Related terms

• quattuor

Descendants

• English: quadrans, quadrant
• French: cadran, quadrant
• Italian: quadrante
• Portuguese: quadrante
• Russian: ???????? (kvadrant)

See also

• oct?ns
• sext?ns

References

• quadrans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadrans in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadrans in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quadrans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• quadrans in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadrans in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• quadrans in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin