English

A quadriga

Noun

quadriga ‎(plural quadrigae or quadrigas)

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
   • 1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425

     In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

   • 1898 (May), A. W. Hands, "Chats on Roman coins with young collectors", Monthly Numismatic Circular 66, col. 2719

     On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]

2. (historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.

Translations

See also

• quadriga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quadrīgae.

Noun

quadriga f ‎(plural quadrigues)

1. quadriga

Italian

Etymology

From Latin quadrīgae.

Noun

quadriga f

1. quadriga

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor ‎(“four”) + iugum ‎(“yoke”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaːˈdriː.ɡa/

Noun

quādrīga f ‎(genitive quādrīgae); first declension

1. quadriga

Inflection

First declension.

References

• quadriga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• QUADRIGA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quadriga”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• quadriga in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• quadriga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin quadrīgae.

Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrigas)

1. quadriga