quinquagenarius

Latin

Etymology

From quinquāgēnus (“fifty each”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming denumeral adjectives), from quinquāgintā (“fifty”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷiːn.kʷaː.ɡeːˈnaː.ri.us/, [kʷiːŋkʷäːɡeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwin.kwa.d͡ʒeˈna.ri.us/, [kwiŋkwäd͡ʒeˈnäːrius]

Adjective

quīnquāgēnārius (feminine quīnquāgēnāria, neuter quīnquāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) number fifty
2. fifty-year-old
   • 1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy.‎^[1], 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, […]

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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	quīnquāgēnārius	quīnquāgēnāria	quīnquāgēnārium		quīnquāgēnāriī	quīnquāgēnāriae	quīnquāgēnāria
genitive	quīnquāgēnāriī	quīnquāgēnāriae	quīnquāgēnāriī		quīnquāgēnāriōrum	quīnquāgēnāriārum	quīnquāgēnāriōrum
dative	quīnquāgēnāriō	quīnquāgēnāriae	quīnquāgēnāriō		quīnquāgēnāriīs
accusative	quīnquāgēnārium	quīnquāgēnāriam	quīnquāgēnārium		quīnquāgēnāriōs	quīnquāgēnāriās	quīnquāgēnāria
ablative	quīnquāgēnāriō	quīnquāgēnāriā	quīnquāgēnāriō		quīnquāgēnāriīs
vocative	quīnquāgēnārie	quīnquāgēnāria	quīnquāgēnārium		quīnquāgēnāriī	quīnquāgēnāriae	quīnquāgēnāria

References

• “quinquagenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quinquagenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.