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Latin
Etymology
From quinquāgēnus (“fifty each”) + -ārius (suffix forming denumeral adjectives), from quinquāgintā (“fifty”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
quīnquāgēnārius (feminine quīnquāgēnāria, neuter quīnquāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) number fifty
- fifty-year-old
1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy., Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, page 38:[…] for, although, I be quinquagenarius, or fifty years of age, yet what Virgin in Florence will respuat me when I abound in riches, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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