nonary
English edit
| ← 8 | 9 | 10 → |
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| Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Group collective: ninesome Multipart collective: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Greek prefix: enato- Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium | ||
Etymology edit
From the Latin nōnārius, from nōnus (“ninth”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).
Adjective edit
nonary (not comparable)
- Of ninth rank or order.
- 1984 January 9, L. J. Walpole, “Fourth-Rank Tensors of the Thirty-Two Crystal Classes: Multiplication Tables”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, volume 391, number 1800, →JSTOR, pages 149–179:
- […] and the rhombic algebra is established as the direct sum of the nonary subalgebra of the Upq and of the three unary subalgebras generated individually by V, W and X, […]