quatre
English
Alternative forms
Noun
quatre (plural quatres)
- (archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
- 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia
- The first best throw upon the dice is esteemed aces, as it stops the six-point in the outer table, and secures the cinque in your own, whereby your adversary's two men upon your ace-point cannot get out with either quatre, cinque, or six.
- 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
Numeral
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Cardinal : quatre Ordinal : quart Multiplier : quàdruple | ||
Catalan Wikipedia article on quatre |
quatre m or f
Derived terms
- quatre gats (“only a few people”)
- dir quatre coses (“to tell off”)
French
Etymology
From Old French quatre, qatre, catre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
- (alone or preceding a vowel) IPA(key): /katʁ/
- (preceding a consonant) IPA(key): /ka.tʁə/, /kat/
Audio (France) (file)
Numeral
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Cardinal : quatre Ordinal : quatrième | ||
French Wikipedia article on quatre |
quatre
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text) | ||||||
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as | deux | trois | quatre | cinq | six | sept |
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huit | neuf | dix | valet | dame | roi | joker |
Further reading
- “quatre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French quatre.
Norman
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Cardinal : quatre | ||
Etymology
From Old French quatre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkatre/
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