different between quatre vs quaere

English

Alternative forms

• cater

Etymology

Borrowed from French quatre. Doublet of cuatro and four.

Noun

quatre (plural quatres)

1. (archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.

Related terms

• ace, deuce, trey, cinque, sice

Anagrams

• aquert, quarte

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?kwa.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kwa.t?e/
• Rhymes: -at?e

Numeral

quatre m or f

1. four
2. a few

Derived terms

• quatre gats (“only a few people”)
• dir quatre coses (“to tell off”)

Noun

quatre m (plural quatres)

1. four
2. (castells) a castell with four castellers per level

French

Etymology

From Old French quatre, qatre, catre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres. Compare Catalan quatre, Italian quattro, Portuguese quatro, Spanish cuatro.

Pronunciation

• (alone or preceding a vowel) IPA^(key): /kat?/
• (preceding a consonant) IPA^(key): /ka.t??/, /kat/

Numeral

quatre

1. four

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: katr, kat
• Garifuna: gádürü
• Guianese Creole: katr, kat
• Karipúna Creole French: kat
• Louisiana Creole French: kat
• Seychellois Creole: kat
• Tayo: katr
• ? English: quatre

See also

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• traque, traqué

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French quatre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.tr?/

Numeral

quatre (invariable)

1. four (4)

Descendants

• French: quatre

Norman

Alternative forms

• quat' (Jersey)
• quate (continental Norman)

Etymology

From Old French quatre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres.

Numeral

quatre

1. (Guernsey) four

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?katre/

Numeral

quatre

1. four

Related terms

• quaranta
• quart
• quatren

Old French

Alternative forms

• catre
• qatre

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?katr?/

Numeral

quatre

1. four

Descendants

• Middle French: quatre
  • French: quatre
    • Antillean Creole: katr, kat
    • Garifuna: gádürü
    • Guianese Creole: katr, kat
    • Karipúna Creole French: kat
    • Louisiana Creole French: kat
    • Seychellois Creole: kat
    • Tayo: katr
    • ? English: quatre
• Franc-Comtois: quaitre
• Norman: quate (continental), quatre (Guernsey), quat' (Jersey)
• Picard: quate
• Walloon: cwate

English

Alternative forms

• quære (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaer? (“seek, look for; ask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw???i/

Verb

quaere (third-person singular simple present quaeres, present participle quaering or quaereing, simple past and past participle quaered)

1. (archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
   • 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander:

     Now, she cannot express her emotions fully: Quaere: will she feel them fully?

Noun

quaere (plural quaeres)

1. (archaic) A question or query.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3 (Penguin 2003, page #216):

     Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many places all at one time,—he could not have […] started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him.

References

• 1902: Websters International Dictionary.
• 1984: Concise Oxford.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quaere”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

quaere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of quaer?