Word Origin Summary

Quattuor is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kʷetwṓrProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *kʷettwōrProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• de-kuwatro

  Tagalog · derived from

• cwate

  Walloon · inherited from

• kat

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• quatre

  Norman · inherited from

• quattuordecuple

  English · derived from

• quatro

  Istriot · inherited from

• quatre

  Occitan · inherited from

• quatre

  French · inherited from

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