adverb
quater
quater (not comparable)
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablefour times
“[...] Quater ipsō in līmine portae substitit, atque uterō sonitum quater arma dedēre.” “Four times – at the very threshold of the gateway! – it hesitated; and also four times the weapons within its womb gave up a clatter.”
(Despite repeated difficulties and multiple warning signs the Trojans persist in pulling the wooden horse into the city.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.241–242
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quattuor vicibusquater — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 10
quăter, adv. num. quattuor,
I. four times:
quater in anno pariunt, Varr. R. R. 3, 10; Verg. A. 2, 242; Hor. S. 2, 3, 1.—With other numerals: quater quinis minis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 111: quater deni, forty, Ov. M. 7, 293: quater decies, fourteen times, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, § 100: quater centies, Vitr. 10, 14. —Freq. in phrase: ter et quater, ter aut quater, or terque quaterque, three and (or) four times, i. e. over and over again, often, extremely: ter et quater Anno revisens aequor, Hor. C. 1, 31, 13: corvi presso ter gutture voces Aut quater ingeminant, Verg. G. 1, 410: terque quaterque solum scindendum, id. ib. 2, 399: terque quaterque beati, id. A. 1, 94: o mihi felicem terque quaterque diem, Tib. 3, 3, 26.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quater adv. num.
cf. quattuor, four times : quater in limine Substitit, V.: toto quater anno, H.: quater deni, forty , O.: HS quater deciens, i. e. fourteen hundred thousand sesterces (see sestertius).—In phrases with ter, three or four times , over and over again, repeatedly, thrice and again : ter et quater Anno revisens aequor, H.: ter Aut quater, V.: Terque quaterque, V.
Origins
From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.