four

Significat (Anglès)

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. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
3. (countable, uncountable) Four o'clock.
4. (countable, uncountable) A person who is four years old.
5. (countable) 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. (countable) A power forward.
7. (countable, uncountable) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
8. (countable, uncountable) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
9. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A four-pennyworth of spirits.

Conceptes

quatre

4

4

quatre

4

IV

qüern

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

quatre

4

cuatro

4

vier

4

quattro

4

vier

4

quatro

4

τέσσερα

quattuor

4

dört

4

Vier

4️⃣

quatre

çar

4

4

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: four

Heretat de anglès antic: fēower

Cognat amb escocès: fower

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: fjauer

Cognat amb frisó occidental: fjouwer

Cognat amb neerlandès: vier

Cognat amb alemany: vier

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: -

Cognat amb danès: fire

Cognat amb suec: fyra

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂

Cognat amb llatí: quattuor

Cognat amb espanyol: cuatro

Cognat amb francès: quatre

Cognat amb grec antic: τέσσαρες

Cognat amb irlandès: ceathair

Cognat amb armeni: չորս

Cognat amb lituà: keturi

Cognat amb albanès: katër

Cognat amb sànscrit: चतुर्

In summary

PIE word
*kʷetwóres
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, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

Frases

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 .