Where does “quattrocentist” come from?
quattrocentist (English) comes from English quattrocento, from Italian quattrocento, from Italian quattro, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus, from Proto-Indo-European kʷeturtos — and.
quattrocentist (English): An artist of the 1400s, the fifteenth-century...
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- An artist of the 1400s, the fifteenth-century...
Ancestry of “quattrocentist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | quattrocento | The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance... |
| 2 | Italian | quattrocento | four hundred |
| 3 | Italian | quattro | four; either of the quarter hours after midnight... |
| 4 | Latin | quattŭor | — |
| 5 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 7 | Latin | quārtus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |