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square

/skˈweə/SKWUH
/skˈwɛɹ/SKWER

Meaningfour-sided

Common meaning: a figure with four equal sides

Journey through time

  1. Latinquattuor; quadrus‘four’
  2. Old Frenchesquarrésource
  3. Middle Englishsquaresource
  4. Englishsquare‘a figure with four equal sides’ · today

squar also in: quarterquadrantquadruple

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin quattuor; quadrus ‘four; four-sided’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry quattuor, p. 1501 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry SQUARE, p. 587 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

quadrantquadruplequarter

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