quaternio
Latin
Etymology
From quater.
Noun
quaterniō m (genitive quaterniōnis); third declension
- The number four (e.g. on a dice)
- A group of four soldiers
- quaternion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- Middle Irish: ceithern, ceithernn, ceithrenn
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