köken: From Middle High German vierde, from Old High German fiordo (akin to Old Saxon fiortho), from Proto-West Germanic *feurþō. Equivalent to vier + -te. Cognate with Dutch vierde, Danish fjerde, English fourth.
köken: Inherited from Old French quatre, qatre, catre, from Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Compare Catalan quatre, Italian quattro, Portuguese quatro, Spanish cuatro.
aile: à un de ces quatre, dire ses quatre vérités, entre quatre yeux, la semaine des quatre jeudis, manger comme quatre, patin à quatre roues, patin à roulettes quatre roues, quatre cents, quatre dragons du Pacifique, quatre volontés
köken: From Latin quartus. Doublet of cuarta. The sense of room is after a common division of houses (4 or 5 sections). As a unit of English measure, calque of English quart. Compare English quarter.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic четвьртъ (četvĭrtŭ), from Proto-Slavic *četvьrtъ (“fourth”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ketwirtas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥tós.
köken: Morphologically toʻrt + -inchi. Cognate with Turkish dördüncü, Kyrgyz төртүнчү (törtüncü), Turkmen dördünji, Kazakh төртінші (törtınşı), Azerbaijani dördüncü.
köken: Cognates include Turkish dördüncü, Tatar дүртенче (dürtençe), Kazakh төртінші (törtınşı), Kyrgyz төртүнчү (törtüncü), Turkmen dördünji and Azerbaijani dördüncü.
köken: From Latin quartus (“fourth”). As a unit of dry measure, in reference to its making up one-fourth of the alqueire or Portuguese bushel. Cognate with Spanish cuarterón.