Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An element in many compounds of Latin origin or formation, meaning ‘four.’ In quadrangle, quadrangular (as in Latin), and in quadrennial, quadrennium, it is reduced to quadr-.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold.

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  • prefix Four.

Etymologies

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From Latin quattuor ("four").

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