Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

four

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Translingual

[edit]
Signal flag for the digit 4

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed fromEnglishfour.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

four

  1. (international standards)NATO &ICAOradiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit4.
    Synonym:kartefour(ITU/IMO)
ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
AlfaBravoCharlieDeltaEchoFoxtrotGolfHotelIndiaJuliettKiloLimaMike
NovemberOscarPapaQuebecRomeoSierraTangoUniformVictorWhiskeyXrayYankeeZulu
zeroonetwothree(tree)four(fower)five(fife)sixseveneightnine(niner)hundredthousanddecimal
ICAO/NATO vs ITU/IMO radiotelephonic clear codes for digits
ICAO/NATOzeroonetwothree(tree)four(fower)five(fife)sixseveneightnine(niner)
ITU/IMOnadazerounaonebissotwoterrathreekartefourpantafivesoxisixsettesevenoktoeightnovenine

References

[edit]
  1. ^Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, archived fromthe original on31 March 2019, page§5.2.1.4.3.1

English

[edit]
EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
English numbers(edit)
40
 ←  345  → 
   Cardinal:four
   Ordinal:fourth
   Abbreviated ordinal:4th
   Latinate ordinal:quartary,quaternary
   Latinate reverse order ordinal:preantepenultimate
   Adverbial:fourtimes
   Multiplier:fourfold
   Latinate multiplier:quadruple
   Distributive:quadruply
   Germanic collective:foursome
   Collective of n parts:quadruplet
   Greek or Latinate collective:tetrad
   Greek collective prefix:tetra-,tessera-
   Latinate collective prefix:quadri-
   Fractional:quarter,fourth
   Elemental:quadruplet
   Greek prefix:tetarto-
   Number of musicians:quartet
   Number of years:quadrennium,olympiad

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]
PIE word
*kʷetwóres

FromMiddle Englishfour, fromOld Englishfēower, fromProto-West Germanic*feuwar, fromProto-Germanic*fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm*petwṓr, fromProto-Indo-European*kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of*kʷetwóres.Doublet ofcuatro andquatre.

Cognates includeScotsfower,Saterland Frisianfjauer,West Frisianfjouwer,Dutchvier,German Low Germanveer,Germanvier,Norwegian Bokmål andDanishfire,Swedishfyra,Gothic𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂(fidwōr) and, more distantly,Latinquattuor (whenceSpanishcuatro,Frenchquatre),Ancient Greekτέσσαρες(téssares),Irishceathair,Welshpedwar,Armenianչորս(čʻors),Lithuanianketuri,Albaniankatër,Sanskritचतुर्(catur).

Pronunciation

[edit]

enPR:fōr(without thehorse–hoarse merger)enPR:fō(non-rhotic, without thehorse–hoarse merger but with thedough–door merger)

enPR:fôr(rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

enPR:fô(non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Numeral

[edit]

four

  1. Anumericalvalue equal to4; the number afterthree and beforefive;two plustwo. This many dots (••••)
    There arefour seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
    • 1912 January,Zane Grey, chapter 8, inRiders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London:Harper & Brothers Publishers,→OCLC:
      Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
    • 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, inCNN‎[3]:
      Redding’s study askedfour psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria:[…]
  2. Describing aset orgroup with fourelements.

Derived terms

[edit]
Terms derived fromfour

Related terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English:fuar,fua
  • Aukan:fo
  • Australian Kriol:fo
  • Belizean Creole:foa,foar
  • Bislama:fo
  • Cameroon Pidgin:fo̱
  • Grenadian Creole English:fo
  • Gullah:fo
  • Krio:fo
  • Nigerian Pidgin:fo̱r
  • Pichinglis:fo
  • Pijin:foa
  • Saramaccan:fɔ́
  • Sranan Tongo:fo
  • Tok Pisin:foa
  • Torres Strait Creole:po

Translations

[edit]
the cardinal number 4
describing set or group with four components

See also

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

four (countable anduncountable,pluralfours)

  1. (countable) Thedigit orfigure 4; an occurrence thereof.
  2. (countable) Anything measuring fourunits, aslength.
    Do you have any morefours? I want to make this a little taller.
  3. Four o'clock.
    • 1828,Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9, Comprising a Directory of the Merchants, Bankers, Professional Gentleman[...] in the Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland[...]‎[4], London; Manchester: J. Pigot & Co.,page767:
      Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes pastfour.
    • 1865,Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, inHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia, CalledFrederick the Great, volume VI, London:Chapman and Hall, […],→OCLC:
      Frederick, I presume, at this late hour offour, may be snatching a morsel of dinner;[…]
    • 1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, inThe Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner‎[5], volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps,→OL,page657:
      The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar aboutfour in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles.
  4. A person who is fouryears old.
    I'll take the threes,fours and fives and go to the playground.
  5. (cricket, countable) Anevent in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, abatsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over aboundary, resulting in an award of 4runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, asix is awarded instead.
  6. (basketball, countable) Apower forward.
  7. (rowing) Four-mansweep racing shell, with or without acoxswain.
    1. The shell itself.
      The team bought a newfour last season.
    2. Thecrew rowing in a four boat.
      Ourfour won both races.
    3. (colloquial) Aregatta event for four boats.
      We got third place in the varsityfour.
  8. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
    • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,A Study in Scarlet, section IV:
      I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy afour of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

Derived terms

[edit]
  • (numeral):rouf(back slang)

Translations

[edit]
digit or figure 4
anything measuring four units
four years old
in cricket
basketball: power forward—seepower forward
rowing: four-man sweep racing shell or its crew
four-pennyworth of spirits
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

[edit]

English terms starting with “four”

Playing cards in English ·playing cards(layout ·text)
acedeuce,twothree,treyfour,caterfive,cinquesixseven
eightninetenjack,knavequeenkingjoker
Symbols of number four in various numeral systems

Anagrams

[edit]

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfour, fromOld Frenchfour,forz,forn, fromLatinfurnus, fromProto-Italic*fornos, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰr̥-nós, from*gʷʰer-(“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

four m (pluralfours)

  1. oven
  2. stove
  3. flop

Derived terms

[edit]

Related terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Louisiana Creole:fou

Further reading

[edit]

Istriot

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromLatinforis,foras. CompareItalianfuori,Friulianfûr,Dalmatianfure,Venetanfora.

Adverb

[edit]

four

  1. out,outside

Preposition

[edit]

four

  1. out,outside

Middle English

[edit]
Middle English numbers(edit)
40
 ←  345  → 
   Cardinal:four
   Ordinal:ferthe

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromOld Englishfeōwer.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Numeral

[edit]

four

  1. four[2]
    • c.1395,John Wycliffe,John Purvey [et al.], transl.,Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[6], publishedc.1410,Apocalips 6:8,folio 119, recto, column 1; republished asWycliffe's translation of the New Testament,Lichfield: Bill Endres,2010:
      ⁊ lo a pale hoꝛs .· and þe name was deþ to him þat ſat on hym and helle ſuede him / and power was ȝouen to him onfoure partis of þe erþe .· to ſle with ſwerd / ⁊ wiþ hungur / ⁊ wiþ deþ / ⁊ wiþ beeſtis of þe erþe
      And lo! A pale horse, and the name was Death for who that sat on him, and hell trailed him. And power was given to him overfour parts of the earth, to slay with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the earth's creatures.

Related terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl.,Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica;218)‎[2],The Hague:Mouton & Co. N.V.,→DOI,§ 109,page128.
  2. ^“four,num.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

Norman

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromOld Frenchforn, fromLatinfurnus.

Noun

[edit]

four m (pluralfours)

  1. (Guernsey)oven

Walloon

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

four m (pluralfours)

  1. hay
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=four&oldid=88185587"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2025 Movatter.jp