A quadriga is a chariot drawn by four horses.
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Quadriga
//kwɑˈdɹi.ɡə//
Synonyms for "quadriga"
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Translations
22 translations across 14 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τέθριππον noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Catalan
1 entries- quadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Danish
2 entries- firspand noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- firspand noun (team of four horses, or other animals)
Finnish
3 entries- nelivaljakko noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- nelivaljakko noun (team of four horses, or other animals)
- quadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
French
1 entries- quadrige noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
German
2 entries- Quadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- Viergespann noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Greek
1 entries- τέθριππο noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Italian
2 entries- quadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- quadriga noun (team of four horses, or other animals)
Latin
1 entries- quadrīgae noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Marathi
4 entries- क्वाड्रिगा noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- क्वाड्रिगा noun (team of four horses, or other animals)
- क्वाद्रिगा noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
- क्वाद्रिगा noun (team of four horses, or other animals)
Polish
1 entries- kwadryga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Portuguese
1 entries- quadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Russian
1 entries- квадри́га noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Spanish
1 entries- cuadriga noun (Roman racing chariot and team of four horses)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward [travels, voyages, fulfils its course] upon a ship. […] Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.
Source: wiktionary
On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga […]
Source: wiktionary
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