Latin

Alternative forms

• quattor, quātuor (rare)
• Symbol: IV or IIII or IIII^or

Numeral

quattuor ‎(indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) four; 4
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.116–118

     Iuppiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris perque hiemes aestusque et inaequalis autumnos et breve ver spatiis exegit quattuor annum.

     Venerable Jove brought together the time of spring and through winter, summer, variable autumn, and brief spring completed the year in four seasons.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Leviticus.11.23

     quicquid autem ex volucribus quattuor tantum habet pedes execrabile erit vobis

     But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Derived terms

Related terms

• quadrāgintā
• quādrus
• quārtus

Descendants

• Aromanian: patru, paturu
• Corsican: quattru
• Dalmatian: quater, quatar, kuatri, čatro, quattro
• Emilian: quâter
• Franco-Provençal: quatro
• French: quatuor (borrowing)
• Friulian: cuatri
• Istriot: quatro
• Istro-Romanian: påtru
• Ladin: cater
• Ligurian: quattro
• Lombard: quatar, quater, quasar
• Megleno-Romanian: patru
• Navarro-Aragonese: quatro
  • Aragonese: quatre, quatro
• Neapolitan: quatto
• Old French: quatre
  • Middle French: quatre
    • French: quatre
      • Antillean Creole: katr, kat
      • English: quatre (borrowing)
      • Guianese Creole: katr, kat
      • Karipúna Creole French: kat
      • Louisiana Creole French: kat
      • Seychellois Creole: kat
      • Tayo: katr
  • Norman: quate (continental), quatre (Guernsey), quat' (Jersey)
  • Picard: quate
  • Walloon: cwate
• Italian: quattro
• Old Leonese: quatro
  • Asturian: cuatro, cuatru, cuetru
  • Leonese: cuatru
  • Mirandese: quatro
• Old Portuguese: quatro
  • Fala: cuatru
  • Galician: catro
  • Portuguese: quatro
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: kuatru
    • Indo-Portuguese: quátor
    • Kabuverdianu: kuátu
    • Kadiwéu: cwaatolo
    • Korlai Creole Portuguese: kwat
    • Kristang: kuatu
    • Principense: kwatu
    • Sãotomense: kwatlu, kwatu
• Old Provençal: catre, quatre
  • Occitan: quatre, qüate
  • Old Catalan: quatre
    • Catalan: quatre
• Old Spanish: quatro
  • Ladino: kuatro
  • Spanish: cuatro
    • Chavacano: kwatro
    • Palenquero: cuatro
    • Papiamentu: cuater
• Piedmontese: quatr
• Romagnol: quatar
• Romanian: patru
• Romansch: quatter, quater
• Sabir: quatr'
• Sardinian: batero, bàtoro, batro, baturu, quatru
• Sicilian: quattru
• Tarantino: quatt
• Venetian: quatro

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• quattuor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quattuor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quattuor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • four successive days: quattuor dies continui
    
  • to hold out for four months: obsidionem quattuor menses sustinere