quarante

Inherited from Old French quarante, from Late Latin quarranta, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāntā, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥(d)ḱomt (“four-ten”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁɑ̃t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t

quarante (invariable)

1. forty

• carême
• quatre

• Antillean Creole: karant
• Guianese Creole: karant
• Haitian Creole: karant, karann
• Louisiana Creole: karant, karannt
• Aruamu: karaṅt
• Seychellois Creole: karant

• “quarante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tcherànte (Guernsey)

From Old French quarante, from Late Latin quarranta, from Latin quadrāgintā.

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quarante

1. (Jersey) forty

From Late Latin quarranta, from Latin quadrāgintā.

• IPA^(key): /k(w)aˈɾantə/

quarante

1. forty

• quatre

• Middle French: quarante
  • French: quarante (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: tcherànte (Guernsey), quarante (Jersey)
• Walloon: cwarante, karantt