quater

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

quater (not comparable)

1. four times
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.241–242:

     “[...] Quater ipsō in līmine portae
     substitit, atque uterō sonitum quater arma dedēre.”

     “Four times – at the very threshold of the gateway! – it hesitated; and also four times the weapons within its womb gave up a clatter.”
     (Despite repeated difficulties and multiple warning signs the Trojans persist in pulling the wooden horse into the city.)

• quaternus

• “quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quater”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

quater

1. Alternative form of quarter

• quatter (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin quattuor, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

quater

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) four