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Latin
Etymology
From quadri- + rēmus (“oar”).
Noun
quadrirēmis f (genitive quadrirēmis); third declension
- quadrireme (a vessel having four men per bank of oars)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
References
- “quadriremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quadriremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadriremis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “quadriremis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “quadriremis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin