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quadro

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See also: quadrò

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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quadro m (plural quadros)

  1. Alternative form of quadre
    • 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, chapter IV, in La plaça del Diamant, Barcelona: Club Editor Kapel, published 1984, →ISBN, page 25:
      Tenia un quadro penjat amb un cordill groc i vermell [...]
      There was a painting hanging by a yellow and red string [...]

Etymology 2

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Verb

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quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dro/
  • Rhymes: -adro
  • Hyphenation: quà‧dro

Etymology 1

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From Latin quadrum. Compare Portuguese quadro.

Adjective

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quadro (feminine quadra, masculine plural quadri, feminine plural quadre)

  1. square

Noun

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quadro m (plural quadri, diminutive quadrétto or quadrùccio, augmentative quadróne, pejorative quadràccio)

  1. painting or picture
    Synonym: dipinto
  2. square
    Synonym: riquadro
  3. description or outline or sketch
    fare il quadro della situazioneto join the dots of the situation (literally, “to make a picture of the situation”)
  4. (in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)
  5. cadre
  6. board (A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.)
Descendants
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  • French: cadre
  • Slavomolisano: kvadr

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrare

Latin

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Etymology

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From quadrus (square), from quattuor (four).

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Verb

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quadrō (present infinitive quadrāre, perfect active quadrāvī, supine quadrātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make four-cornered, square, make square
  2. (transitive) to put in order, join properly, complete, perfect
  3. (intransitive) to agree with, fit with, square with
  4. (intransitive, of accounts) to accord, agree, fit
    • 1890, Ernest Renan, Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum[1], part 1, volume 2, fascicle 4, Paris, pages 552–553:
      Titulos neopunicis elementis scriptos inter tot milia votorum Tanitidi et Baali Hammoni dicatorum fere nullos reperimus; quod quidem mire quadrat cum opinione eorum qui volunt titulos Taniteos ante destructam a Romanis Carthaginem conscriptos fuisse.
      We find almost no inscriptions with Neo-Punic characteristics among the thousands of offerings consecrated to Tanit and Baal Hammon; which fits very well with the opinion of those who consider the inscriptions to Tanit to have been written before Carthage was destroyed by Rome.
  5. (intransitive, of words) to be fitting, appropriate

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quadro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • quadro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire

Portuguese

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um quadro de Rubens

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -adɾu
  • Hyphenation: qua‧dro

Etymology 1

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From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

Noun

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quadro m (plural quadros)

  1. (art) painting; picture
    Synonym: pintura
  2. square
    Synonym: quadrado
  3. frame:
    1. rigid, generally rectangular mounting for a painting
      Synonym: moldura
    2. bicycle frame
    3. (electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline
      Synonym: frame
  4. description; outline
    Synonym: representação
  5. board, e.g. blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard
    Synonym: painel
  6. scene (part of an theather act)
    Synonym: cena
  7. (television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)
    Synonym: esquete
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

Further reading

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