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Latin
Etymology
From quaternus + -iō.
Noun
quaterniō m (genitive quaterniōnis); third declension
- The number four (e.g. on a dice)
- A group of four soldiers
- quaternion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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