Question:
Is there a word for "four times" like "once, twice, thrice..."?
?
2020-01-01 00:58:17 UTC
Is there a word for "four times" like "once, twice, thrice..."?
Eighteen answers:
bluebellbkk
2020-01-05 18:52:05 UTC
There may have been such a word hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but even if so, no such word exists now.

It's a very human propensity to number things up to three. I suspect nobody ever felt it necessary to use a 'four' equivalent of once, twice or thrice.
Richard
2020-01-04 13:58:09 UTC
idk maybe something like quice or quaa bi idk
?
2020-01-01 18:49:51 UTC
frice



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?
2020-01-01 17:43:47 UTC
Something can 'quadruple' if it is four times more than the thing you're referencing, as long as the  grammar is correct.  We can say, 'He is twice the size he was the last time I saw him,' or 'He is quadruple the size he was the last time I saw him.'
quatt47
2020-01-01 15:23:28 UTC
Trimestrial possibly
anonymous
2020-01-01 10:42:01 UTC
As Buckwheat said: "Unce, Tice, Fee times a mady. Dont makes me tell ya frice."

-->FRICE   = 4.

Final answer, Regis.
?
2020-01-01 04:11:13 UTC
Quadruple
anonymous
2020-01-01 02:37:44 UTC
In English? Not that I know of



In Esperanto it is "kvarfoje"
anonymous
2020-01-01 01:07:37 UTC
Yeah zunger, cowabunga ,zoo poo ,kucka,bush Tucker ,put some puffer fish on ya fork 
anonymous
2020-01-01 00:59:37 UTC
No such word exists except repeatedly.
Jeffrey
2020-01-05 03:22:55 UTC
try "fourfold". It means by a "factor of four".
anonymous
2020-01-01 18:07:24 UTC
There are two different meanings involved. He did it twice. He has twice as much money as me. Notice that "once" only works in the first of those sentences. 



"Thrice" is an almost archaic word. Like "once" it only works in that first sentence, and no one would use it there unless they were trying to sound archaic or to be funny.



In other words, "four times" is so straightforward and understandable that there is no need for a single word to replace it.



There is a word "fourfold," and the -fold suffix can be applied to any number, but in practice it is only used with increases. His yearly salary went from $50,000 to $200,000. It increased fourfold.
RP
2020-01-01 15:52:29 UTC
The only word that comes to mind is quadruple, meaning to multiply by a factor of four.
busterwasmycat
2020-01-01 13:51:59 UTC
Not in my lexicon.  I am not aware of a standard and broadly accepted such word.
?
2020-01-01 05:50:22 UTC
quadruple, quintuple, etc etc...
anonymous
2020-01-01 01:26:06 UTC
Vier (pronounced fear), Quatro, Quatrain, tetralogy.
?
2020-01-01 01:02:34 UTC
I mean there's the word "quadruple", but I'm guessing you wanted something else.
Mark IX
2020-01-01 00:58:58 UTC
Quadruple



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