quatro

See also: Quatro

English

Noun

quatro (plural quatros)

1. Alternative form of cuatro.
   • 1995, Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago:

     By the late 1940s Jules had invented a quatro pan after observing a family playing parang, a Venezuelan-derived Christmas music traditional to Trinidad which is generally performed by vocalists accompanied by guitars, quatros, mandolins, a one-string box bass, chac-chacs, and scrapers.

2. synonym of four-toed sloth

Anagrams

• quarto

Aragonese

Aragonese numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: quatro     Ordinal: quarto

Alternative forms

• quatre

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quattuor. Cognates include Spanish cuatro and Catalan quatre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɾo/
• Rhymes: -atɾo
• Syllabification: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro

1. four

References

• Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés et al. (2021), Gramatica basica de l'aragonés, Zaragoza: University of Zaragoza Press, page 121
• Martínez Tur, Feliciano; Rodés Orquín, Francho (2022), “cuatre / cuatro”, in Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán‎^[1], Zaragoza, Spain: Estudio de Filolochía Aragonesa, Edicions Dichitals de l’Academia de l’Aragonés, published April 2025, →ISSN, page 329

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatro (invariable) (ORB, broad)

1. four

References

• quatre in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• quatro in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Galician

Galician numbers ^(edit)

	40[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal (reintegrationist): quatro     Cardinal (standard): catro     Ordinal (reintegrationist): quarto     Ordinal (standard): cuarto     Ordinal abbreviation: 4º     Multiplier (reintegrationist): quádruplo     Multiplier (standard): cuádruplo
Galician Wikipedia article on 4

Numeral

quatro (reintegrationist norm)

1. four

Further reading

• “quatro”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Interlingua

Numeral

quatro

1. four

Istriot

Alternative forms

• quattro

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Numeral

quatro

1. four

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• (Old Lombard) IPA^(key): [ˈkwatɾo]

Numeral

quatro

1. (Old Lombard) four

Descendants

• Lombard: quatter, quatar, quater, quasar, cuàter, cuatro

Macanese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr

Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr

Latin quattuor

Old Galician-Portuguese quatro

Portuguese quatro

Macanese quatro

Inherited from Portuguese quatro.

Numeral

quatro

1. four (4)

   Coordinate terms: três, cinco

References

• Elisabela Larrea (5 October 2016), “Unga, dois, três…1, 2, 3..”, in belamaquista‎^[2] (in Chinese and English), Macau, archived from the original on 16 February 2024

Mirandese

Mirandese numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: quatro     Ordinal: quarto

Etymology

From Old Leonese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Numeral

quatro

1. four

Old Galician-Portuguese

Old Galician-Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: quatro     Ordinal: quarto     Fractional: quarto

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɾo/
• Rhymes: -atɾo
• Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro (cardinal number)

1. four

Descendants

• Fala: cuatru
• Galician: catro
• Portuguese: quatro (see there for further descendants)

References

• CX, “quatro”
• DDGM, “quatro”
• UC, “quatro”
• VPM, “quatro”

Old Leonese

Etymology

From Latin quattuor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɾo/
• Rhymes: -atɾo
• Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro

1. four
   • 1294, Document from Espinareda de la Vega:

     Lunes quatro dias andados del mes de Jeneyro.

     Monday four days have gone by the month of January.

Descendants

• Asturian: cuatro, cuatru, cuetru
• Leonese: cuatru
• Mirandese: quatro

Old Spanish

Old Spanish cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : quatro     Ordinal : quarto

Alternative forms

• iiij (representation in Roman numerals)

Etymology

From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwatɾo/
• Rhymes: -atɾo
• Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro

1. four
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v:

     é dixom ami ppħza al ſp̃u aſſi diz el ſeñor dios de de ^[sic] quatro uenga ſpiritu e ſofle eneſtos matados. e. biuan.

     [E dixo-m a mí “Prophetiza al spiritu, assí diz el Sennor Dios: De quatro venga spiritu, e sofle en estos matados e bivan.”]

     And he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; ‘Thus says the Lord God: come from four [winds], o breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”

Related terms

• quarto

Descendants

• Ladino: kuatro
• Spanish: cuatro (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: quatro     Ordinal: quarto     Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º, 4º     Multiplier: quádruplo     Fractional: quarto     Group: quarteto, quadra, quaternidade     Quantile: quartil
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 4

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr

Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr

Latin quattuor

Old Galician-Portuguese quatro

Portuguese quatro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quatro, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.tɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.tɾu/

• (Minho) IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɾu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -atɾu
• Hyphenation: qua‧tro

Numeral

quatro m or f

1. four
   • 2006, Daniela Zaitz, Direito & know-how, Jurua Editora, →ISBN, page 31:

     O autor conclui que podem ser objeto do know-how quatro tipos de elementos, considerados isoladamente ou em conjunto: a habilidade técnica, a experiência técnica, os conhecimentos técnicos e os processos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

quatro m (plural quatros)

1. four

Derived terms

• a quatro mãos
• cinquenta e quatro
• de quatro
• moto-quatro
• noventa e quatro
• oitenta e quatro
• quarenta e quatro
• Quatro Irmãos
• quatro olhos
• quatro por quatro
• quatro-cantinhos
• quatro-momento
• quatro-olhos
• quatrocentos
• sessenta e quatro
• setenta e quatro
• trevo de quatro folhas
• trinta e quatro
• vinte e quatro

Related terms

• catorze / quatorze
• esquartejar / quartejar
• quadra
• quadrado
• quadrangular
• quadrante
• quadrar
• quadratura
• quadri-
• quadrícula
• quadriculado
• quadriénio / quadriênio
• quadriga
• quadrilátero
• quadrilha
• quadrilião / quadrilhão
• quadrimomento
• quadro
• quádruplo
• quadrupolo
• quarenta
• quarentão
• quarentena
• quaresma
• quartar
• quarteirão
• quarteiro
• quartel
• quarteto
• quartil
• quartilhar
• quartilho
• quarto
• quartola
• quaternário
• quaternião
• quatri-
• quatrilião / quatrilhão
• tessela
• tesselário
• téssera
• tesserato / tesseracto
• tetra-
• tetracampeão
• tetradimensional
• tetraedro
• tetragonal
• tetragrama
• tetraplégico
• tetrarca
• tetrarquia
• tetravó
• tetravô

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kuatru
• Indo-Portuguese: quátor
• Kabuverdianu: kuátu
• Kadiwéu: cwaatolo
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: kwat
• Kristang: kuatu
• Macanese: quatro
• → Nheengatu: kuaru
• Papiamentu: kuater
• Principense: kwatu
• Sãotomense: kwatlu, kwatu

See also

Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text)
ás	dois, duque	três, terno	quatro, quadra	cinco, quina	seis, sena	sete, bisca, manilha
oito	nove	dez	valete	dama, rainha	rei	jóquer, curinga

Further reading

• “quatro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “quatro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Numeral

quatro

1. obsolete spelling of cuatro

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Italian quattro.

Numeral

quatro

1. four