cuatro

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cuat·ro

(kwä′trō)

n. pl. cuat·ros

A small guitarlike instrument of Latin America, usually having four or five pairs of strings.

[Spanish, from Latin quattuor, four; see quatrain.]

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cuatro

(ˈkwɒtrəʊ)

n, pl -tros

(Instruments) dialect Caribbean a small guitar with four strings

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Ask any Puerto Rican to name the typical musical instrument most identified with the island, and the answer will be immediate: the small guitar known as the cuatro. But press the same person to provide any details about the instrument's origin, and the response is likely to be silence.

The Spanish guitar of the fifteenth century was a much smaller instrument, endowed with just four (cuatro) strings.