four

Betekenis (English)

Num

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Noun

1. The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. Anything measuring four units, as length.
3. Four o'clock.
4. A person who is four years old.
5. An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
6. A power forward.
7. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
8. Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
9. (colloquial) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
10. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.

Synonyms

fourth

4th

4

quaternion

quatern

quadruplet

Little Joe

number four

tetrad

four-spot

IV

quaternity

quadri-

quaternary

fore

foursome

four times

iv

quad

quartet

and

several

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: four

Inherited from Old English: fēower

Cognate with Skots: fower

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: fjauer

Cognate with Fries: fjouwer

Cognate with Nederlands: vier

Cognate with Duits: vier

Cognate with Boeknoors: -

Cognate with Deens: fire

Cognate with Sweeds: fyra

Cognate with Goties: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂

Cognate with Latyn: quattuor

Cognate with Spaans: cuatro

Cognate with Frans: quatre

Cognate with Antieke Grieks: τέσσαρες

Cognate with Iers: ceathair

Cognate with Armeens: չորս

Cognate with Litaus: keturi

Cognate with Albanees: katër

Cognate with Sanskrit: चतुर्

In summary

From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

Sinne

The couple had four children , three sons and one daughter .

They finished fourth out of four teams .

Another four contain framed text .

Four sailors died instantly and another two were lost overboard .

He was survived by his wife Grania and four children .

When he was four weeks old , his family relocated to Vienna , Austria .

By observing these subjects , Johnson helped Masters identify the four stages of sexual response .

The province is divided into four cantons .