quarry

Significat

Noun

A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

Verb

1. To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
2. To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

Verb

To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Amb guionet com

quar‧ry

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkwɒɹ.i/

Etimologia

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”).