English

retroquire

From retro- + quire.

Latin retrō ‘back, backwards, behind’

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres ‘four’

Latin quater ‘four times’

Latin quaternus ‘fourfold’

Anglo-Norman quaier

Middle English quayer ‘a quire’

English quire

Today it means

noun —

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Etymograph / retroquire