The corpus record — Latin

quā^trĭo

quā^trĭo · m

the number four

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What it meant

quā^trĭo — Lewis & Short

quā^trĭo, ōnis, m.quattuor,

I the number four, esp. on dice, a four, a quatre: jactus quisque apud lusores veteres a numero vocabatur, ut unio, binio, trio, quatrio, quinio, senio. Postea appellatio singulorum mutata est, et unionem canem, trionem suppum, quatrionem planum vocabant, Isid. Orig. 18, 65.

Where it came from

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