The corpus record — Latin

quadrageni

forty at a time* (Cato+), quadragenarius

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9 · 1.14/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 1 · 0.76/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. quadrageni — de Vaan

quadrageni 'forty at a time* (Cato+), quadragenarius 'holding 40 units' (Cato+), — [de Vaan, s.v. quadrageni, p. 519]

2. quā^drāgēni — Lewis & Short

quā^drāgēni, ae, a (

I gen. quadragenūm, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; Liv. 38, 38), num. distrib. adj. [quadraginta].

I Forty each: columnae singulae sestertiis quadragenis milibus locatae, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147; id. Att. 4, 18, 2: octoginta confecit centurias, quadragenas seniorum et juniorum, Liv. 1, 43: pyramides complures quadragenarum ulnarum, Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 87; Liv. 38, 38: septuagies centeni quadrageni fiunt novem milia et octingenti, forty each time, Col. 5, 2, 8.—Plur. fem. quadragenae (supply plagae), forty stripes, Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 24. —

II In gen., for quadraginta, forty: centies vicies duceni quadrageni fiunt viginti octo millia et octingenti, i. e. 240X120 =28,800, Col. 5, 2.

In the wild

quadragenos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.2.p5
quadragenae Cato, De agri cultura 148
quadragenis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.36
quadragenos Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.7.2
quadragenos Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.5.3
quadragenos Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.43.7

6 of 50 attestations shown.

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. quadrageni (scan p. 519; entry #1443).

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