different between quadrat vs quadral

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin quadr?tum.

Noun

quadrat (plural quadrats)

1. (sciences) An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.

Derived terms

• photoquadrat
• subquadrat

Etymology 2

1683. Probably from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), originally from Latin quadr?tum (“square”). So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.

Noun

quadrat (plural quadrats)

1. (letterpress typography, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v 2, p 222–23:

     If his Title be ?hort, he Sets it in the middle of the Line, by Setting Quadrats on both ?ides: If his Title be long, he Sets the middle Line in the middle: If it make three or more Lines, he Indents the fir?t with an m Quadrat, and the other with two m Quadrats.

2. (Egyptology) A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.

Synonyms

• quad
• space

Derived terms

• quad

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadr?tus, possibly a borrowing. Cf. caire, quadre.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

quadrat m (plural quadrats)

1. square

Adjective

quadrat (feminine quadrada, masculine plural quadrats, feminine plural quadrades)

1. square
2. squared

Related terms

• quadrar
• quadre
• caire
• cairar

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

quadrat

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

Tatar

Noun

quadrat

1. quadrat

Adjective

quadrat

1. quadratic, square

English

Etymology

From New Latin quadralis, from quadru- (“four-”) + -alis

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?d??l/

Noun

quadral (countable and uncountable, plural quadrals)

1. (grammar) A grammatical number referring to four (or more) things.
   • 2008, Martin Haspelmath, Language typology and language universals: an international handbook, volume 1, page 819:

     There is a question as to whether there are also languages with quadrals (for reference to four entities). However, having raised the issue of paucals, we shall first continue the analysis of these, and only then return to the question […]
2. (mathematics) A set of points with all the combinatorial properties of a quadric (a quadric being the set of points of PG(n, q) whose coordinates satisfy a quadratic equation).
3. (rhetoric) A set of four phrases, separated by pauses when speaking or commas when writing.
   • 1932, John Hubert Scott, Zilpha Emma Chandler, Phrasal patterns in English prose, page 268:

     thanks to the rhythma,

     in dividing correctly

     many simple quadrals,

     in more involved sentences

     our arrangement shows regularly

     these simple quadrals

     expanding into "periods,"

4. A foursome.

Adjective

quadral (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Referring to four (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quadral grammatical number.
2. (mathematics) Of or relating to quadral polynomials.

Usage notes

• No instance of this grammatical phenomenon has been attested in human languages. See also Grammatical number.

See also

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Category: en:Grammar)}