quadragenarius
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From quadrāgēnus (“forty each”) + -ārius (suffix forming denumeral adjectives), from quadrāgintā (“forty”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | quadrāgēnārius | quadrāgēnāria | quadrāgēnārium | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriae | quadrāgēnāria | |
| genitive | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriae | quadrāgēnāriī | quadrāgēnāriōrum | quadrāgēnāriārum | quadrāgēnāriōrum | |
| dative | quadrāgēnāriō | quadrāgēnāriae | 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.