Fun Facts and Trivia About Squares

The word “square” has ancient roots in the Proto-Indo-European root kwetwer, meaning “four.” That root fed into the Latin quadrus, denoting a four-sided shape, and then into the Vulgar Latin verb exquadrare, meaning to make something square. From there, it passed through Old French as esquarre before entering Middle English as “square,” displacing the older… Read More The post Fun Facts and Trivia…