Where does “carré” come from?
carré (French) comes from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto — and.
carré (French): square; quadratic; straightforward
Definitions
- square; quadratic; straightforward
Ancestry of “carré”, step by step
carré traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French quarré
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | quarré | — |
| 2 | Old French | quarré | square |
| 3 | Latin | quadrātus | square, squared, having been made square, made into a square shape |
| 4 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 5 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 6 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 7 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 9 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |
via Old French carrer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | carrer | — |