quadrigatus

From Latin quadrīgātus, from quadrīgae (“four-horse team”).

quadrigatus (plural quadrigati)

1. A medium-sized silver coin minted by the Roman Republic during the 3rd century B.C.E.

From quadrīgae (“four horse team”), because the coin was stamped with an image of one.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷa.driːˈɡaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷa.d̪riˈɡaː.t̪us]

quadrīgātus m (genitive quadrīgātī); second declension

1. quadrigatus, a Roman silver coin minted during the 3rd century BCE

Second-declension noun.

• English: quadrigatus
• Italian: quadrigato

• “quadrigatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quadrigatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quadrigatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “quadrigatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quadrigatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin