quini Latin · revision 32406

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *penkʷe}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīnī''', quīnae, quīna^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The singular ''quīnus'' is rare.^(OLD 2012)

+ The genitive plural is ''quīnum'', in Columella and the ''Digest''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|quīnque|t=five]] with the suffix [[m|la|-nus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan reconstructs it as [[m|itc-pro|*kwenkw-(s)no-]] and traces [[m|la|quīnque]] to [[itc-pro|*kwenkwe|t=five]] and [[ine-pro|*penkʷe|t=five]], comparing [[osc|pomtis|t=five times]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Truculentus'': the hangers-on come to the prostitutes five or six at a time.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the distributive numeral, five each or five apiece: Caesar has five feet each, and Nepos five verses each.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means five at a time or together, as Cicero's Greeks crammed five to a couch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it once like a cardinal number, of five herds of cattle.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of five at a time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of five to a couch.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of five feet each.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # Five each, five apiece.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Five at a time, five together.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' [[m|en|five|alt=Five]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quinque|alt=quīnque]]

+ * [[quintus|alt=quīntus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}