quingeni Latin · revision 36355

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la quīngentī}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīngēnī''' ''m pl'', quīngēnae ''f pl'', quīngēna ''n pl''; first/second-declension distributive numeral, plural only^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quīngentī|-ēnī|t1=five hundred]], with the distributive suffix.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists the cardinal among the derivatives of [[m|la|quīnque|t=five]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*kʷenkʷe]] and [[ine-pro|*penkʷe|t=five]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in a letter to Atticus that someone gives five hundred denarii to each man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a distributive numeral, five hundred each or five hundred at a time.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Besides Cicero, Suetonius uses it, and it appears in the Digest.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses it simply for five hundred.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler records it in the Salic law,^(Köbler 2010) and Ecclesiastical Latin also has the longer ''quingenteni''.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of five hundred denarii each.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it for five hundred.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it in his ''Lives''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # Five hundred each, five hundred at a time.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Five hundred.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[quingēnārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quinque]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}