quadro

See also: quadrò

Catalan

Noun

quadro m (plural quadros)

  1. Alternative form of quadre
    • 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, chapter IV, in La plaça del Diamant, Barcelona: Club Editor Kapel, published 1984, →ISBN, page 25:
      Tenia un quadro penjat amb un cordill groc i vermell [...]
      There was a painting hanging by a yellow and red string [...]

Verb

quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dro/
  • Rhymes: -adro
  • Hyphenation: quà‧dro

Etymology 1

From Latin quadrum. Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Adjective

quadro (feminine quadra, masculine plural quadri, feminine plural quadre)

  1. square

Noun

quadro m (plural quadri, diminutive quadrétto or quadrùccio, augmentative quadróne, pejorative quadràccio)

  1. painting or picture
    Synonym: dipinto
  2. square
    Synonym: riquadro
  3. description or outline or sketch
    fare il quadro della situazioneto join the dots of the situation (literally, “to make a picture of the situation”)
  4. (in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)
  5. cadre
  6. board (A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.)
Descendants
  • French: cadre
  • Slavomolisano: kvadr

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrare

Latin

Etymology

From quadrus (square), from quattuor (four).

Pronunciation

Verb

quadrō (present infinitive quadrāre, perfect active quadrāvī, supine quadrātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make four-cornered, square, make square
  2. (transitive) to put in order, join properly, complete, perfect
  3. (intransitive) to agree with, fit with, square with
  4. (intransitive, of accounts) to accord, agree
  5. (intransitive, of words) to be fitting, appropriate

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quadro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • quadro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
  • Pede Certo - Digital Latin Metre, 2011

Portuguese

um quadro de Rubens

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dɾu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dɾo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkwa.dɾu/ [ˈkwa.ðɾu]

  • Rhymes: -adɾu
  • Hyphenation: qua‧dro

Etymology 1

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

quadro m (plural quadros)

  1. (art) painting; picture
    Synonym: pintura
  2. square
    Synonym: quadrado
  3. frame:
    1. rigid, generally rectangular mounting for a painting
      Synonym: moldura
    2. bicycle frame
    3. (electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline
      Synonym: frame
  4. description; outline
    Synonym: representação
  5. board, e.g. blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard
    Synonym: painel
  6. scene (part of an theather act)
    Synonym: cena
  7. (television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)
    Synonym: esquete
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

quadro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

Further reading

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