quaternio

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	quaterniō	quaterniōnēs
genitive	quaterniōnis	quaterniōnum
dative	quaterniōnī	quaterniōnibus
accusative	quaterniōnem	quaterniōnēs
ablative	quaterniōne	quaterniōnibus
vocative	quaterniō	quaterniōnēs

Descendants

• → English: quaternion
• Old Irish: ceithern
  • Middle Irish: ceithern, ceithernn, ceithrenn
    • Irish: ceithearn
    • Manx: kern
    • Scottish Gaelic: ceatharn, ceatharna
    • → Middle English: kerne
      • English: kern

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