cuatro
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish cuatro. Doublet of four and quatre.
Noun
[edit]cuatro (plural cuatros)
- Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).
Derived terms
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[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Aragonese
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| Cardinal : cuatro | ||
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin quattuor. Compare Catalan quatre.
Numeral
[edit]cuatro
Asturian
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| Cardinal : cuatro Ordinal : cuartu | ||
Etymology
[edit]Numeral
[edit]cuatro (indeclinable)
Lombard
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[edit]Alternative forms
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]cuatro
Spanish
[edit]| 40 | ||
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| Cardinal: cuatro Ordinal: cuarto Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º Multiplier: cuádruple Fractional: cuarto | ||
| Spanish Wikipedia article on 4 | ||
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish quatro, from Latin quattŭor (“four”), from Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognates include Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), French quatre, Old English feower (English four).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]cuatro
Noun
[edit]cuatro m (plural cuatros)
- a four-stringed guitar with the first string a fifth below, instead of a fourth above, the second
Derived terms
[edit]- a cuatro patas
- a cuatro pies
- Banda de los Cuatro
- como dos y dos son cuatro
- cuatro gatos
- cuatro ojos
- cuatro ojos ven más que dos
- cuatro reglas
- dar cuatro verdades
- de cuatro orejas
- diez-cuatro
- doblón de a cuatro
- entre cuatro paredes
- hidalgo de cuatro costados
- las cuatro esquinas
- más de cuarto
- motor de cuatro tiempos
- por cuatro reales
- por los cuatro costados
- sapo de cuatro ojos
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
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Further reading
[edit]- “cuatro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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