tetra-, tetr-

Compounded of four ingredients.

In Russia in the eighteenth century, innovative icons began to be produced, with models taken from Roman Catholic paintings of the Italian Renaissance, and polyphony or heterophony, called four-part harmony (tetraphony), began to be used in Russian churches, in imitation of the innovative ecclesiastical music of the West.

Having four feet or four limbs; specifically, in entomology, belonging to the Tetrapoda, a division of butterflies having only four perfect legs, the anterior pair being unfit for walking.

A reference to having four feet, four arms, four ears, etc.

Having four feet.

A district of four cities; a state or political division consisting of four towns.

One of four joint rulers, directors, or heads.