quinquagenarius

Latin

Etymology

From quinquāgēnī (“fifty each”) +‎ -ārius (“forming denumeral adjs”), from quinquāgintā (“fifty”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiːn.kʷaː.ɡeːˈnaː.ri.us/, [kʷiːŋkʷäːɡeːˈnäːriʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwin.kwa.d͡ʒeˈna.ri.us/, [kwiŋkwäd͡ʒeˈnäːrius]

Adjective

quīnquāgēnārius (feminine quīnquāgēnāria, neuter quīnquāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

(relational) number fifty
fifty-year-old
- 1663, William Clark (advocate), “Scaena Septima”, in William H. Logan, editor, Marciano; or, the Discovery. A Tragi-Comedy.‎, Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, page 38:
  […] for, although, I be quinquagenarius, or fifty years of age, yet what Virgin in Florence will respuat me when I abound in riches, […]
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Declension

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References

“quinquagenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
quinquagenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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