quadra

From Latin quadra.

quadra (plural quadrae)

1. (architecture) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
2. A fillet, or listel.
3. A frame enclosing a bas relief.

Inherited from Latin quadra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkwa.ðɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkwa.ðɾa]

quadra f (plural quadres)

1. (historical) ward (division of a castle)
2. section (of an industrial building), ward (of a hospital), etc.
3. stable

   Synonym: estable

4. (nautical) a square sail

   Synonym: rodona

• quadrat
• quadre

• “quadra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

quadra

1. inflection of quadrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kwa.dʁa/, /ka.dʁa/

quadra m or f by sense (plural quadras)

1. Clipping of quadragénaire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.dra/
• Rhymes: -adra
• Hyphenation: quà‧dra

Borrowed from Latin quadra.

quadra f (plural quadre)

1. (nautical) square sail, square rigged
2. square bracket

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quadra

1. feminine singular of quadro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quadra

1. inflection of quadrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• navigare alla quadra

From quattuor (“four”).

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷa.dra/, [ˈkʷäd̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.dra/, [ˈkwäːd̪rä]

quadra f (genitive quadrae); first declension

1. square

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: quadra

• “quadra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quadra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadra 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)
• quadra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “quadra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quadrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

From Latin quadra. Compare quadro.

• Rhymes: -adɾɐ
• Hyphenation: qua‧dra

quadra f (plural quadras)

1. quadrangle
2. (poetry) a quatrain
3. season, period, time

   Quadra festiva. ― Festive season.

4. (lottery): a set of four numbers
5. (card games) four
6. (Brazil) block of buildings

   Synonym: (Portugal) quarteirão

7. (Brazil) sport venue; court
8. (Brazil) large square compound where samba schools practice

quadra

1. inflection of quadrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative