quatuor

quatuor (plural quatuors)

1. (music) A quartet.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin quā̆tuor, a variant spelling of quattuor.

• IPA^(key): /kwa.tɥɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɥɔ

quatuor m (plural quatuors)

1. (music) quartet (composition)
2. (music) quartet (group of musicians)
3. (sexuality) foursome

• “quatuor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.tu.ɔr], [ˈkʷa.tu.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.tu.or]

quā̆tuor (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of quattuor

• quatuor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• quattuor (quatuor) in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “quattŭor (quātŭor)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quattuor (quāt-)”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quattŭŏr (quătŭŏr)”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.