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English word square comes from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétesres, Latin evanescere, Latin *quadrellus, and later Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr (Four.)
*kʷétesres (Proto-Indo-European)
evanescere (Latin)
*quadrellus (Latin)
*kʷetwṓr (Proto-Indo-European)
*kʷettwōr (Proto-Italic)
Four.
quattor (Latin)
(rare, cardinal).
quadra (Latin)
Square.
*exquadro (Latin)
*exquadra (Vulgar Latin)
eschelle (Old French)
square (English)
(1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.. (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.. (North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.. (academia) A mortarboard. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and [...]