Etymograph

English

quadripulse

From quadri- + pulse.

Formed from quadri- + pulse

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr

Proto-Italic *kʷettwōr ‘four’

Latin quattuor ‘four’

English quadri-

Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘to beat, strike’

Latin pulsus ‘beat, impulse, pulse, stroke’

Old French pous

Anglo-Norman puls

Middle English pulse ‘regular beat of arteries, pulse’

English pulse

Today it means

adj Employing four pulses (typically, four monophasic magnetic pulses)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / quadripulse