quaterni

quaterni

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	40
[a], [b] ←  3	IV 4	5  →
Cardinal: quattuor     Ordinal: quārtus     Adverbial: quater     Multiplier: quadruplex, quadruplus     Distributive: quadrīnī, quaternī     Fractional: quadrāns, teruncius

Etymology

From quater.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaˈter.niː/, [kʷäˈt̪ɛrniː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwaˈter.ni/, [kwäˈt̪ɛrni]

Numeral

quaternī (feminine quaternae, neuter quaterna); first/second-declension numeral, plural only

1. (distributive) four each; four at a time

Declension

• Note: Genitive is often quaternum.

First/second-declension adjective, plural only.

Number	Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	quaternī	quaternae	quaterna
Genitive	quaternōrum	quaternārum	quaternōrum
Dative	quaternīs
Accusative	quaternōs	quaternās	quaterna
Ablative	quaternīs
Vocative	quaternī	quaternae	quaterna

Derived terms

• quaternārius
• quaterniō

Related terms

• quattuor

Descendants

• Catalan: quadern
• Italian: quaderno
• Old Occitan: quazerna, cazerna
  • French: caserne (borrowed)
    • Dutch: kazerne (borrowed)
  • Occitan: cazerna
• Portuguese: caderno, quaderna, quaterno
• Spanish: cuaderno
• Old French: quaier
  • English: quire (borrowed)
  • French: cahier

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• “quaterni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quaterni”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quaterni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to demand 48 per cent: quaternas centesimas postulare (Att. 5. 21. 11)