Etymology

quartet

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Today it means: A group of four people or things, particularly Full definition →

French quartette ← Italian quartetto
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromquartetto
  2. French · borrowed fromquartette
  3. English todayquartet

From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.