quatre

• cater

Borrowed from French quatre. Doublet of cuatro and four.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætə(ɹ)/

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quatre (plural quatres)

1. (archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
   • 1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182:

     Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.

   • 1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170:

     The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.

• ace, deuce, trey, cinque, sice

• aquert, quarte

Akin to Spanish cuatro, from Latin quattuor.

quatre

1. four

Inherited from Latin quattuor (“four”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Occitan quatre, French quatre, and Spanish cuatro.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkwa.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkwa.tɾe]

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• Rhymes: -atɾe

quatre m or f

1. (cardinal number) four
2. a few

   quatre gats ― only a few people (literally, “four cats”)

• quatre gats (“only a few people”, literally “four cats”)
• dir quatre coses (“to tell off”, literally “to tell four things”)
• fer quatre ratlles (“to write a short text”, literally “to make four lines”)

quatre m (plural quatres)

1. four
2. (castells) a castell with four castellers per level

• “quatre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French quatre, qatre, catre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Catalan quatre, Italian quattro, Portuguese quatro, Spanish cuatro.

• (alone or preceding a vowel) IPA^(key): /katʁ/
• (preceding a consonant) IPA^(key): /ka.tʁə/, (colloquial) /kat/

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quatre (invariable)

1. four

• Antillean Creole: katr, kat
• Garifuna: gádürü
• Guianese Creole: katr, kat
• Karipúna Creole French: kat
• Louisiana Creole: kat
• Seychellois Creole: kat
• Tayo: katr
• → English: quatre

Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
as	deux	trois	quatre	cinq	six	sept
huit	neuf	dix	valet	dame	roi	joker

• “quatre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• traque, traqué

From Old French quatre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.trə/

quatre (invariable)

1. four (4)

• French: quatre (see there for further descendants)

• quat' (Jersey)
• quate (continental Norman)

From Old French quatre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

quatre

1. (Guernsey) four

From Old Occitan quatre, catre, from Latin quattuor. Cognates include Catalan quatre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.tɾe/

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• Hyphenation: qua‧tre

quatre

1. four

• quaranta
• quart
• quatren

• catre, qatre

From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈk(w)atɾə/

quatre

1. four

• Champenois: caitre, quaitre
• Franc-Comtois: quaitre
• Middle French: quatre
  • French: quatre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: quate (continental), quatre (Guernsey), quat' (Jersey)
• Picard: quate
• Walloon: cwate