different between quatre vs quarte

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

• carte

Etymology

French quarte

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quarte (countable and uncountable, plural quartes)

1. (fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.

Anagrams

• aquert, quatre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?t/

Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (music) fourth (music interval)

2. (fencing) quarte

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Adjective

quarte

1. fourth

Italian

Adjective

quarte

1. feminine plural of quarto

Noun

quarte f

1. plural of quarta

Latin

Numeral

qu?rte

1. vocative masculine singular of qu?rtus

References

• quarte in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quarte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

quarte f (plural quartes)

1. (Jersey) quart

Old French

Adjective

quarte m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quarte)

1. fourth (ordinal adjective)