quinquangulus

Latin

Etymology

From quīnque (“five”) +‎ angulus (“angled”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷiːnˈkʷan.ɡu.lus/, [kʷiːŋˈkʷäŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwinˈkwan.ɡu.lus/, [kwiŋˈkwäŋɡulus]

Adjective

quīnquangulus (feminine quīnquangula, neuter quīnquangulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pentagonal
   • 1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu De Niva Sexangula, page 5:

     Nam si casu fit, cur non aeque quinquangula cadunt, aut septangula, cur semper sexangula, siquidem nondum confusa et glomerata multitudine, variogue impulsu, sed sparsa et distincta?

     For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall equally pentagonal, or heptagonal, why always hexagonal, if in fact they are never mixed and heaped in a great number, and by different impact, but sparse and distinct?

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	quīnquangulus	quīnquangula	quīnquangulum		quīnquangulī	quīnquangulae	quīnquangula
genitive	quīnquangulī	quīnquangulae	quīnquangulī		quīnquangulōrum	quīnquangulārum	quīnquangulōrum
dative	quīnquangulō	quīnquangulae	quīnquangulō		quīnquangulīs
accusative	quīnquangulum	quīnquangulam	quīnquangulum		quīnquangulōs	quīnquangulās	quīnquangula
ablative	quīnquangulō	quīnquangulā	quīnquangulō		quīnquangulīs
vocative	quīnquangule	quīnquangula	quīnquangulum		quīnquangulī	quīnquangulae	quīnquangula

References

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