quaternio
Latin
editEtymology
editNoun
editquaterniō m (genitive quaterniōnis); third declension
- The number four (e.g. on a dice)
- A group of four soldiers
- quaternion
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | quaterniō | quaterniōnēs |
Genitive | quaterniōnis | quaterniōnum |
Dative | quaterniōnī | quaterniōnibus |
Accusative | quaterniōnem | quaterniōnēs |
Ablative | quaterniōne | quaterniōnibus |
Vocative | quaterniō | quaterniōnēs |
Descendants
edit- → English: quaternion
- Old Irish: ceithern
References
edit- “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