The corpus record — Latin

quadragenarius

quadragenarius · adj

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

quā^drāgēnārĭus, a, um, adj.quadrageni,

I of or belonging to the number forty, consisting of forty, of forty: dolium, perh. holding forty congii, Cato, R. R. 105, 1: fistula, a forty-inch pipe, i. e. made of a plate forty inches in width, Vitr. 8, 7: numerum, Vulg. Deut. 25, 3: pupillus, of forty, i. e. forty years old, Sen. Ep. 25, 1.—As subst.: quā^drāgēnārĭus, i, m., a man forty years of age: quadragenarium istum ad te voca, Arn. 2, 60.

In the wild

quadragenariae Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.4
quadragenarium Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.25.1
quadragenarium Cato, De agri cultura 105

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. quadragenarius (scan p. 276; entry #690).

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