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“four” in Latin
quattuorfour; 4quaternusfour each; four at a time; four (collective), fourfoldquaternāriuscontaining or consisting of four things; quaternary; ellipsis of quaternārius versus: a quaternariusquadrīmusfour-year-old; of four years
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
four
quatuor: quaterni, ae, a (each, or to each four, in divisions; also, = four at once, especially with substantives that are used in plur. only; e.g., on each waggon there were four men, quaternos viros singuli currus vehebant: four letters, quaternae litterae; i. e., epistles): four or five, quatuor quinque; quatuor aut quinque: twice four, bis quatuor: containing four pieces, quaternarius (also = of four feet in diameter, breadth, etc.; e.g., pit, scrobs): one of a committee composed of four men, quatuorvir (their rank was quatuorviratus): lasting four months, quadrimestris: four years old, quadrimus: (each) four years old, quaternorum annorum (e.g., boys, pueri): lasting four years, quadriennis: a space of four years, quadriennium (e.g., four years after the taking of Veii, quadriennio post Veios captos): every four years, quarto quoque anno: at four (o’clock), hora quarta: four per cent, quadrans: a carriage and four, quadrigae: to ride in a carriage and four, curru quadrigarum vehi: made or intended to be drawn by four horses, quadrijugus or quadrijugis; e.g., currus quadrijugus or quadrijugis; also, quadrigae (i. e., a team of four horses): that has four hands, quatuor manus habens; quadrimanus or quadrimanis (the last two seldom occur): a musical piece arranged for four (à quatre-mains), *modi musici quatuor manibus clavichordio canendi: (a song) composed for four voices (a quartette), modi musici quatuor vocibus descripti: tetrachordos (τετράχορδος; i. e., that has four sounds): the four, numerus quaternarius (general term); quaternio (on dice; e.g., to throw the four, quaternionem mittere): that has four legs, quadrupes: four-threaded, or made of four threads, “quatuor fila habens; *quatuor filis constans: that has four corners, quadratus; quadrangulus (of four angles): that has four sides, quatuor lateribus; quadrilaterus (only in later writers): of four syllables, *tetrasyllabus (τετρασύλλαβος): of four (or lasting four hours), quatuor horarum: lasting four days, quatuor dierum: a space of four days, quatriduum: four times, quater: four times as big, or as much again, quadruplum: four times as much as, etc. [Vid: FOUR-FOLD]: four times bigger, quadruplo major (e.g., the lungs of the elephant are four times as large as those of a bull, elephanto pulmo quadruplo major bubulo): a piece of poetry consisting of four lines, carmen tetrastichum: also, tetrastichum only (tetrastichus, τετράτιχος, grammatical term): that has four prongs, quadridens: that has four teeth, quadridens: consisting of four different sorts, quatuor generum; quatuor (four, in general): four and a half, quatuor et dimidius (as adjective): four times as much as, quater tantum, quam quantum (after Cic., Verr., 3, 45, 112); quater tanto amplius, quam quantum (after Cic., Verr. 3, 97, extr.): on all fours, per manus et genua (e.g., reptare); more bestiarum quadrupes, or quadrupes only.
Four hundred, quadringenti; quadringeni (each, or to each four hundred, also, four hundred at once; especially with substantives that are only used in the plur., number; e.g., each horseman received four hundred “denarii,” equitibus quadringeni denarii tributi: consisting each time of four hundred pieces, men, etc., quadringenarius; e.g., cohorts of four hundred men, cohortes quadringenariae): four hundred times, quadringenties. Four thousand, quatuor millia (with following noun in the genitive plur.); quaterna millia: quaterni milleni (with such nouns as are used in the plur. only).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for four?
- The usual Latin words for “four” are quattuor, quaternus, quaternārius; also quadrīmus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.