The corpus record — Latin

quater

quater · adv. num

four times

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Where it lives

Precationes 2 · 43.2/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Epigrammata 19 · 3.38/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Metamorphoses 17 · 2.19/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quăter — Lewis & Short

quăter, adv. num.quattuor,

I four times: quater in anno pariunt, Varr. R. R. 3, 10; Verg. A. 2, 242; Hor. S. 2, 3, 1.—With other numerals: quater quinis minis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 111: quater deni, forty, Ov. M. 7, 293: quater decies, fourteen times, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, § 100: quater centies, Vitr. 10, 14. —Freq. in phrase: ter et quater, ter aut quater, or terque quaterque, three and (or) four times, i. e. over and over again, often, extremely: ter et quater Anno revisens aequor, Hor. C. 1, 31, 13: corvi presso ter gutture voces Aut quater ingeminant, Verg. G. 1, 410: terque quaterque solum scindendum, id. ib. 2, 399: terque quaterque beati, id. A. 1, 94: o mihi felicem terque quaterque diem, Tib. 3, 3, 26.

In the wild

quaterque Vergil, Aeneid 12.155
quater Ovid, Tristia 3.12.25
quater Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.28.p3
quaterque Ausonius, Precationes 1.55
quater Martial, Epigrammata 8.11.6
quater Vergil, Aeneid 2.243

6 of 165 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Quater (scan p. 577; entry #9468).

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