| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | quat·tro·cen·to |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kw t r -ch n t |
| NOUN: | The 15th-century period of Italian art and literature. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, short for (mil) quattrocento, one thousand four hundred : quattro, four (from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Appendix I) + cento, hundred (from Latin centum; see dek in Appendix I).
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