Where does “cvadratură” come from?
cvadratură (Romanian) comes from French quadrature, from Latin quadratura, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus — and.
cvadratură (Romanian): quadrature
Definitions
- quadrature
Ancestry of “cvadratură”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | quadrature | quadrature |
| 2 | Latin | quadratura | a squaring, making square, quadrature; a square |
| 3 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 4 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 5 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 6 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 8 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |