quarenta

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		400
←  30	←  39	40	41  →	50  →
		4
Cardinal: quarenta     Ordinal: quadragésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 40.º     Fractional: quadragésimo, quarenta avos

Alternative forms

• corenta (obsolete)
• quarẽta (obsolete, abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quareenta, quaraenta, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥(d)ḱomt (“four-ten”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈɾẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈɾẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwaˈɾẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐˈɾẽ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: qua‧ren‧ta

Numeral

quarenta m or f

1. forty

Noun

quarenta m (plural quarentas)

1. forty

Derived terms

• quarentão
• quarentena

Related terms

• quatro

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: korenta, kuarenta
• Indo-Portuguese: corent, quorenta, correntè, currento
• Kabuverdianu: korénta
• Kadiwéu: cwareenta
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: korɛ̃t
• Kristang: korenta
• Principense: kwarenta

Spanish

Numeral

quarenta

1. Obsolete spelling of cuarenta.