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Is quod a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quod is a Scrabble US word. The word quod is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is quod a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quod is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

Q10U1O1D2

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4-letter words (1 found)

QUOD,

3-letter words (3 found)

DUO,OUD,UDO,

2-letter words (3 found)

DO,OD,OU,

You can make 7 words from quod according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of quod

quod uqod qoud oqud uoqd ouqd qudo uqdo qduo dquo udqo duqo qodu oqdu qdou dqou odqu doqu uodq oudq udoq duoq oduq douq

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word quod. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in quod.

Definitions and meaning of quod

quod

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kwɑd/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɒd/
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of quadrangle; originally (17th century) referring to the quadrangles of Newgate Prison, London.

Noun

quod (countable and uncountable, plural quods)

  1. (countable) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; a prison.
    • 1863, Punch, quoted in 1995, Seán McConville, English Local Prisons, 1860-1900: Next Only to Death, page 69,
      […] not the poorer classes merely, but the rich will be desirous to enjoy the mingled luxury and comfort of a gaol: and we shall hear of blasé Swells become burglars and garotters as a prelude to a prison, and, instead of taking tours for restoration of their health, recruiting it more cheaply by a residence in quod.
  2. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
    • c. 1894, Acquaintance of Norman Lindsay, quoted in 2005, James Cockington, Banned: Tales From the Bizarre History of Australian Obscenity, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, paperback →ISBN, page 7,
      I don′t suppose you'll get more than a couple of months′ quod for them.
Alternative forms
  • quad
Translations

Verb

quod (third-person singular simple present quods, present participle quodding, simple past and past participle quodded)

  1. (slang, archaic) To confine in prison.

Etymology 2

Verb

quod

  1. (obsolete) Quoth.

See also

Latin

Etymology

Inflection of quī (“who, which”), corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *kʷod, whence also Old English hwæt (English what).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷod/, [kʷɔd̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwod/, [kwɔd̪]

Pronoun

quod

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of quī

Conjunction

quod

  1. which
  2. because
  3. until
  4. what
  5. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) that (in indirect speech)
    • 13th century, “Dies Irae”

Related terms

  • eō quod
  • quid

Descendants

  • Aromanian: cã, che
  • Dalmatian: co
  • Old Neapolitan: ko (Placiti Cassinesi)
  • Romanian: că
  • Romansch: cu

References

  • “quod”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quod”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quod in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • quod in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Verb

quod

  1. Alternative form of quath (“spoke”, etc.)

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