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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 [...]

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