quater

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	40[a], [b]
←  3	IV 4	5  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: quattuor     Ordinal: quārtus     Adverbial: quater     Proportional: quadruplus     Multiplier: quadruplex, quadriplex     Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus     Collective: quaterniō     Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Adverb

quater (not comparable)

1. four times
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.241–242:

     “[...] 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.)

Derived terms

• quaternus

References

• “quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

quater

1. Alternative form of quarter

Romansch

Alternative forms

• quatter (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

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

Number

quater

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) four