four

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

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

Traducións

quatre

4

cuatro

4

vier

4

quattro

4

vier

4

quatro

4

τέσσερα

quatre

4

quattuor

4

dört

4

Vier

4️⃣

quatre

4

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: four

Herdado de Old English: fēower

Relativo a escocés: fower

Relativo a Saterfriesisch: fjauer

Relativo a frisón occidental: fjouwer

Relativo a neerlandés: vier

Relativo a alemán: vier

Relativo a noruegués bokmål: -

Relativo a dinamarqués: fire

Relativo a sueco: fyra

Relativo a Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂

Relativo a latín: quattuor

Relativo a español: cuatro

Relativo a francés: quatre

Relativo a grego antigo: τέσσαρες

Relativo a irlandés: ceathair

Relativo a armenio: չորս

Relativo a lituano: keturi

Relativo a albanés: katër

Relativo a sánscrito: 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 .