Noun: quadruped
| Singular | quadruped |
| Plural | quadrupeds |
Sample Sentences
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Bradshaw knew nothing of the 'wind of change' that was coming in a century's time, so he contented himself with an exposition on the Vale of the White Horse, "deriving its singular denomination from the gigantic carving of that useful quadruped, on a high chalky hill beyond". [2023 February 22, Stephen Roberts, “Reading... between the lines... to Wales”, in RAIL, number 977, page 56:]
Nouns inflected like quadruped
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder.
3. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥-
4. Proto-Italic *kʷetru-
5. Proto-Indo-European *ped-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-s
7. Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
8. Proto-Italic *pets
9. Proto-Italic *kʷetrupōts
10. Latin quadrupedembor.
11. French quadrupèdebor.
12. English quadruped
13. Borrowed from French quadrupède, from Middle French, from Latin stem of quadrupēs (“four-footed, a four-footed animal”), from quadri- (“four-”) + stem of pes (“foot”). Alternatively analyzable as quadru- + -ped. Doublet of tetrapod. See: French Nouns '
quadrupède'.