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QuadEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Short for Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗quadEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple. The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- QuadMiddle English · word_quad_adj
Quad, adj. and sb. evil, bad, the Evil One, MD, C2; qued, MD, PP; cwed, MD; quet, MD; kueade, dat., S2; queade, S2; quede, S2.—AS. cwead; cf. Du. kwaad.
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Quad, pt. s. quoth, S; see Queðen.
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Quarantine is literally a period of forty.
The public-health sense preserves Italian quaranta: forty.
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