# quadro
## Catalan
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

quadro m (plural quadros)
* Alternative form of quadre
** 1962, Mercè Rodoreda, chapter IV, in La plaça del Diamant, Barcelona: Club Editor Kapel, published 1984, →ISBN, page 25:Tenia un quadro penjat amb un cordill groc i vermell [...]There was a painting hanging by a yellow and red string [...]

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

quadro
* first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkwa.dro/
* Rhymes: -adro
* Hyphenation: quà‧dro

### Etymology 1

From Latin quadrum. Compare Portuguese quadro.

#### Adjective

quadro (feminine quadra, masculine plural quadri, feminine plural quadre)
* square

#### Noun

quadro m (plural quadri, diminutive quadrétto or quadrùccio, augmentative quadróne, pejorative quadràccio)
* painting or picture
    Synonym: dipinto
* square
    Synonym: riquadro
* description or outline or sketch
    fare il quadro della situazione ― to join the dots of the situation (literally, “to make a picture of the situation”)
* (in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)
* cadre
* board (A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.)

##### Descendants

* → French: cadre
* → Slavomolisano: kvadr

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

quadro
* first-person singular present indicative of quadrare

## Latin
### Etymology

From quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkʷa.droː/, [ˈkʷäd̪roː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkwa.dro/, [ˈkwäːd̪ro]

### Verb

quadrō (present infinitive quadrāre, perfect active quadrāvī, supine quadrātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to make four-cornered, square, make square
* (transitive) to put in order, join properly, complete, perfect
* (intransitive) to agree with, fit with, square with
* (intransitive, of accounts) to accord, agree, fit
** 1890, Ernest Renan, Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum‎, part 1, volume 2, fascicle 4, Paris, pages 552–553:Titulos neopunicis elementis scriptos inter tot milia votorum Tanitidi et Baali Hammoni dicatorum fere nullos reperimus; quod quidem mire quadrat cum opinione eorum qui volunt titulos Taniteos ante destructam a Romanis Carthaginem conscriptos fuisse.We find almost no inscriptions with Neo-Punic characteristics among the thousands of offerings consecrated to Tanit and Baal Hammon; which fits very well with the opinion of those who consider the inscriptions to Tanit to have been written before Carthage was destroyed by Rome.
* (intransitive, of words) to be fitting, appropriate

#### Derived terms

* quadrātārius
* quadrātē
* quadrātiō
* quadrātor
* quadrātum
* quadrātūra
* quadrātus

#### Descendants

* Catalan: quadrar
* → English: quadrate
* French: carrer
* Galician: cadrar
* Italian: quadrare
* Occitan: cairar
* Portuguese: quadrar
* Spanish: cuadrar

### References

* “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “quadro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* quadro 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)
* quadro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwa.dɾu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwa.dɾu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkwa.dɾo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkwa.dɾu/ [ˈkwa.ðɾu]
* Rhymes: -adɾu
* Hyphenation: qua‧dro

### Etymology 1

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

#### Noun

quadro m (plural quadros)
* (art) painting; picture
    Synonym: pintura
* square
    Synonym: quadrado
* frame:
** rigid, generally rectangular mounting for a painting
    Synonym: moldura
** bicycle frame
** (electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline
    Synonym: frame
* description; outline
    Synonym: representação
* board, e.g. blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard
    Synonym: painel
* scene (part of an theater act)
    Synonym: cena
* (television) sketch (brief musical, dramatic or literary work)
    Synonym: esquete

##### Derived terms

* enquadrar
* quadrinho
* quadro clínico
* quadro de giz
* quadro por segundo
* quadro-chave
* quadro-negro

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

quadro
* first-person singular present indicative of quadrar

### Further reading

* quadro on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{pt}$