four – English noun declension

English noun forms of four

Noun: four
Singularfour
Pluralfours

Sample Sentences

  • Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
  • Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four. [1828, Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9, Comprising a Directory of the Merchants, Bankers, Professional Gentleman … in the Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland …, London; Manchester: J. Pigot & Co., page 767:]
  • Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; […] [1865, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume VI, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:]
  • The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar about four in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles. [1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps, →OL, page 657:]
  • I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
  • The team bought a new four last season.
  • Our four won both races.
  • We got third place in the varsity four.
  • I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house. [1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section IV:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *kʷetwóres
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
5. Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
6. Proto-West Germanic *feuwar
7. Old English fēower
8. Middle English four
9. English four
10. From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
11. Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Welsh pedwar, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur). See: Old English Nouns 'fēower', Dutch Nouns 'vier', German Nouns 'vier', Swedish Nouns 'fyra', Latin Nouns 'quattuor', Spanish Nouns 'cuatro', French Nouns 'quatre', Irish Nouns 'ceathair'.

Verbs referencing "four"

Spanish Nouns cuatro.