quadrans

From Latin quadrāns. Doublet of quadrant.

quadrans (plural quadrantes)

1. A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.

From quattuor (“four”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷa.drãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷaː.d̪rans]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷad.rãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷad̪.rans]

quadrāns m (genitive quadrantis); third declension

1. A fourth part of something, quarter, farthing.
2. The fourth part of an as, quarter of an as, three unciae.
3. A quarter-digit.
4. (as a liquid measure) The fourth part of a sextārius, quarter of a sextārius.
5. (as a weight) A quarter of a Roman pound.

Third-declension noun.

• quadrantal
• quadrantālis
• quadrantārius

• quattuor

• Catalan: quadrant
• → English: quadrans, quadrant
• French: quadrant
• → German: Quadrant
  • → Polish: kwadrant
• Italian: quadrante
• Middle French: quadran
  • French: cadran
    • → Greek: καντράν (kantrán)
    • → Romanian: cadran
• → Dutch: kwadrant
• → Polish: kwadrans
• Portuguese: quadrante
• Spanish: cuadrante
• → Russian: квадрант (kvadrant)

• octāns
• sextāns

• “quadrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quadrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quadrans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadrans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 3 per cent (a quarter of centesima): quadrantes usurae
    
• “quadrans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadrans in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “quadrans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin