quinquagenarius
Latin
Etymology
From quinquāgēnus (“fifty each”) + -ārius (“forming denumeral adjs”), from quinquāgintā (“fifty”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) 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
- (relational) number fifty
- fifty-year-old
- 1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy., 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.
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.
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