carreau
French
noun
Definitions
- square (as a geometrical shape)
- (card games) diamonds (card suit)
- tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
- windowpane
- bolt (crossbow projectile)
- (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (pas) (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds (pieds)): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
- (Louisiana) plot, patch of land, of cloth
Etymology
Inherited from Old French quarel inherited from Latin *quadrellus, quadrus (square, four).
Origin
Latin
quadrus
Gloss
square, four
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
四
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *exquadra Latin
- *exquadrāre Latin
- *exquadrō, exquadrāre, *exquadro Latin
- *quadrellus Latin
- quadrimaculatus Latin
- quadrisetus Latin
- quadrus Latin
- Hyperquader German
- Karo German
- Karoass German
- Karobube German
- Quader German
- quaderförmig German
- káró Hungarian
- quadrello Italian
- cuadrillo Spanish, Castilian
- cuadro Spanish, Castilian
- karo Polish
- quarel Old French
- karo Serbo-Croatian
- каро Serbo-Croatian
- quadre Catalan, Valencian
- kāravs Latvian
- carreau Norman
- ca-rô Vietnamese
- quāder Middle High German
- Karo Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- каро Macedonian
- quarel Venetian
- cadrial Dalmatian