quarry

(Anglès)

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈkwɒɹ.i/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).

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