English
quadrangular
Quadrangular comes from Latin quadrangulum ‘quadrangle’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquadrangulum‘quadrangle’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEquadrangulāris
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500quadrangulere
- Englishearliest quotation 1854quadrangular
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEquadrangulum‘quadrangle’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEquadrangulāris
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500quadrangulere
- Englishearliest quotation 1854quadrangular
Earliest quotation: 1854, The State Election.: “We are promised certainly a triangular, and possibly a…”
Equivalent to quadr- + -angular
Every English word from Latin quadrangulum
Today it means
adj Having the shape of a quadrangle; in the shape of a quadrangle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin quadrangulum / quadrangular