quăterni
Meaning
- Four each
quăterni, ae, a (
I. gen. plur. quaternūm, Liv. 6, 22, 7; Col. 5, 5, 2; Plin. 9, 3, 2, § 4), adj. plur. [quattuor].
I. Four each, by fours, four at a time:
quaternos denarios in singulas vini amphoras exegisse, Cic. Font. 5, 9: primam aciem quaternae cohortes ex V. legionibus tenebant, i. e. four from each legion, Caes. B. C. 1, 83: saepe tribus lectis videas cenare quaternos, Hor. S. 1, 4, 86.— II. Four together, four at once:
propter bis quaternas causas, Varr. L. L. 5, 1, 6; Aus. ldyll. 10, 60; Sedul. 2, 175; Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 64.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quaternī ae, a, gen plur. nūm, num distr.
quater, four each, by fours, four at a time : quaternos denarios in singulas vini amphoras exegisse: quaternae cohortes ex V legionibus, i. e. four from each legion , Cs.: Saepe tribus lectis videas cenare quaternos, H.: quattuor legionibus quaternūm milium scriptis, L.
In English words that came into English from quăterni
- quaternityquaternitās