quadragenarius
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From quadrāgēnus (“forty each”) + -ārius (“forming denumeral adjs”), from quadrāgintā (“forty”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷa.draː.ɡeːˈnaː.ri.us/, [kʷäd̪räːɡeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwa.dra.d͡ʒeˈna.ri.us/, [kwäd̪räd͡ʒeˈnäːrius]
Adjective[edit]
quadrāgēnārius (feminine quadrāgēnāria, neuter quadrāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) number forty
- forty-year-old
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | quadrāgēnārius | quadrāgēnāria | quadrāgēnārium | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriae | quadrāgēnāria | |
| Genitive | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriae | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriōrum | quadrāgēnāriārum | quadrāgēnāriōrum | |
| Dative | quadrāgēnāriō | quadrāgēnāriō | quadrāgēnāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | quadrāgēnārium | quadrāgēnāriam | quadrāgēnārium | quadrāgēnāriōs | quadrāgēnāriās | quadrāgēnāria | |
| Ablative | quadrāgēnāriō | quadrāgēnāriā | quadrāgēnāriō | quadrāgēnāriīs | |||
| Vocative | quadrāgēnārie | quadrāgēnāria | quadrāgēnārium | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriae | quadrāgēnāria | |
Descendants[edit]
- English: quadragenary, quadragenarian, quadragenarious
References[edit]
- “quadragenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadragenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.