quinquagiens Latin · revision 34301

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la quīnquāgintā}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīnquāgiēns''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''quīnquāgiēs''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quīnquāgintā|-iēns|t1=fifty]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest quotation is from Varro's ''De lingua Latina'', ''quinquagiens centum milia discrimina'', “fifty times a hundred thousand differences”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means fifty times,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and is used especially in multiplication: ''sestertium quinquagiens'' is five million sesterces.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder writes of fighting fifty times (''dimicare'') and of fifty times a hundred thousand (''centena milia''), and Celsus has it of rubbing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it in multiplication.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of battles and in large numbers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Fifty [[m|en|times]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (in multiplication) ''sestertium quinquagiens'', five million [[m|en|sesterce|alt=sesterces]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quīnquāgēsimus]]

+ * [[quīnquāgēnī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}