quatern

Other forms of quatern

plural

quaterns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quatern

What does quatern mean?

quatern means "the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one".

How many syllables are in quatern?

quatern has 2 syllables: qua-tern. The stress falls on "qua".

What is another word for quatern?

Close synonyms include four, 4, IV, tetrad, quaternion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quatern a common word?

quatern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.