quartetto

noun

quar·​tet·​to

plural quartettos

old-fashioned : quartet sense 1

Word History

Etymology

Italian, diminutive of quarto fourth, from quarto, adjective, fourth, from Latin quartus; akin to Latin quattuor four

First Known Use

1758, in the meaning defined above

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