four

Significado (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

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɔː/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglês médio: four

Inherited from inglês arcaico: fēower

Cognate with scots: fower

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: fjauer

Cognate with frísio ocidental: fjouwer

Cognate with holandês: vier

Cognate with alemão: vier

Cognate with bokmål norueguês: -

Cognate with dinamarquês: fire

Cognate with sueco: fyra

Cognate with gótico: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂

Cognate with latim: quattuor

Cognate with espanhol: cuatro

Cognate with francês: quatre

Cognate with grego arcaico: τέσσαρες

Cognate with irlandês: ceathair

Cognate with armênio: չորս

Cognate with lituano: keturi

Cognate with albanês: katër

Cognate with sânscrito: 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).

Frases

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

O casal teve quatro filhos, três filhos e uma filha.

They finished fourth out of four teams .

Eles terminaram em quarto lugar em quatro equipes.

Another four contain framed text .

Outros quatro contêm texto emoldurado.

Four sailors died instantly and another two were lost overboard .

Quatro marinheiros morreram instantaneamente e outros dois foram perdidos ao mar.

He was survived by his wife Grania and four children .

Ele deixou sua esposa Grania e quatro filhos.

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

Quando ele tinha quatro semanas, sua família se mudou para Viena, Áustria.

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

Ao observar esses assuntos, Johnson ajudou os mestres a identificar os quatro estágios da resposta sexual.

The province is divided into four cantons .

A província é dividida em quatro cantões.