quattrocento

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: quat=tro=cen=to

CIDE DICTIONARY

quattrocento, n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.].

 The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quattrocento, n. the style of Italian art of the 15th c.

Derivative

quattrocentist n.

Etymology

It., = 400 used with reference to the years 1400-99

ROGET THESAURUS

quattrocento

Chronometry

N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.