quaternio

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Latin

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    Cardinal: quattuor
    Ordinal: quārtus
    Adverbial: quater
    Proportional: quadruplus
    Multiplier: quadruplex, quadriplex
    Distributive: quaternus, quadrīnus
    Collective: quaterniō
    Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius

Etymology

From quaternus +‎ -iō.

Noun

quaterniō m (genitive quaterniōnis); third declension

  1. The number four (e.g. on a dice)
  2. A group of four soldiers
  3. 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