English
quadropole
From quadro- + pole.
Formed from quadro- + pole
Latin pālus ‘stake, pale, prop, stay’
Proto-West Germanic *pālu ‘pole, stake’
Proto-West Germanic *pāl
Old English pāl ‘a pole, stake, post’
Middle English pole ‘pole, stake, staff’
English pole
Today it means
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Etymograph / quadropole