# quadriga
## English
### Etymology

From Latin quadrīgae, literally "four yoked", from quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kwɒdˈɹiː.ɡə/, /kwəˈdɹiː.ɡə/
* (US) IPA: /kwɑˈdɹi.ɡə/, /kwɑˈdɹai.ɡə/

### Noun

quadriga (plural quadrigae or quadrigas)
* (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
** 1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425
    In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.
** 1898 (May), A. W. Hands, "Chats on Roman coins with young collectors", Monthly Numismatic Circular 66, col. 2719
    On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]
* (historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.

#### Translations
### See also

* quadriga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kwəˈðɾi.ɣə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kwaˈðɾi.ɣa]

### Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrigues)
* quadriga

### References

* “quadriga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Further reading

* “quadriga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “quadriga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “quadriga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin quādrīgae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʋɑdriɡɑ/, [ˈkʋɑ̝driɡɑ̝]

### Noun

quadriga (rare)
* quadriga (Roman racing chariot)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of quadriga (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :

#### Synonyms

* nelivaljakko

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

### Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrighe)
* quadriga

### Further reading

* quadriga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kʷaˈdriː.ɡa/, [kʷäˈd̪riːɡä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kwaˈdri.ɡa/, [kwäˈd̪riːɡä]

### Noun

quadrīga f (genitive quadrīgae); first declension
* quadriga

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | quadrīga | quadrīgae |
| Genitive | quadrīgae | quadrīgārum |
| Dative | quadrīgae | quadrīgīs |
| Accusative | quadrīgam | quadrīgās |
| Ablative | quadrīgā | quadrīgīs |
| Vocative | quadrīga | quadrīgae |

#### Descendants

* → English: quadriga
* → Catalan: quadriga
* → Galician: cuadriga
* → Italian: quadriga
* → Portuguese: quadriga
* → Spanish: cuadriga

### References

* “quadriga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* quadriga 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)
* quadriga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “quadriga”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “quadriga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kwaˈdɾi.ɡɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kwaˈdɾi.ɡɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kwaˈdɾi.ɡa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kwɐˈdɾi.ɡɐ/ [kwɐˈðɾi.ɣɐ]
* Hyphenation: qua‧dri‧ga

### Noun

quadriga f (plural quadrigas)
* quadriga

### Further reading

* “quadriga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024