quaternio
Latin
| ← 3 | IV 4 |
5 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: quattuor Ordinal: quārtus Adverbial: quater Proportional: quadruplus Multiplier: quadruplex, quadriplex Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus Collective: quaterniō Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius | ||
Etymology
From quaternus (“four each”) + -iō.
Noun
quaterniō m (genitive quaterniōnis); third declension
- (dice games) The number four (e.g. on a dice)
- A group of four soldiers
- quaternion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | quaterniō | quaterniōnēs |
| genitive | quaterniōnis | quaterniōnum |
| dative | quaterniōnī | quaterniōnibus |
| accusative | quaterniōnem | quaterniōnēs |
| ablative | quaterniōne | quaterniōnibus |
| vocative | quaterniō | quaterniōnēs |
Descendants
- → English: quaternion
- Old Irish: ceithern
References
- “quaternio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "quaternio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quaternio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “quaternio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers