quadriga

From Latin quadrīgae, literally "four yoked", from quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwɒdˈɹiː.ɡə/, /kwəˈdɹiː.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kwɑˈdɹi.ɡə/, /kwɑˈdɹaɪ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -aɪɡə, -iːɡə

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quadriga (plural quadrigae or quadrigas)

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
   • 1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425

     In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

   • 1898 (May), A. W. Hands, "Chats on Roman coins with young collectors", Monthly Numismatic Circular 66, col. 2719

     On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]

2. (historical) A team of four horses, or sometimes other animals, especially as used in chariot racing.

• quadriga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kwəˈðɾi.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kwaˈðɾi.ɣa]

quadriga f (plural quadrigues)

1. quadriga

• “quadriga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “quadriga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “quadriga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “quadriga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Latin quādrīgae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʋɑdriɡɑ/, [ˈkʋɑ̝driɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑdriɡɑ

quadriga (rare)

1. quadriga (Roman racing chariot)

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Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

quadriga f (plural quadrighe)

1. quadriga

• quadriga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From quattuor (“four”) + iugum (“yoke”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈdriː.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷaˈd̪riː.ɡa]

quadrīga f (genitive quadrīgae); first declension

1. quadriga

First-declension noun.

• “quadriga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "quadriga", 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)
• quadriga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quadriga”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “quadriga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin quadrīga.

• Hyphenation: qua‧dri‧ga

quadriga f (plural quadrigas)

1. quadriga

• “quadriga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025