The corpus record — Latin

quaterni

Four each

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Where it lives

Ausonius 1 · 69.44/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 2 · 18.69/10k
Gallieni Duo 2 · 5.44/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 3 · 5.18/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 3 · 2.6/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 83 · 2.09/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 3 · 1.83/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quăterni — Lewis & Short

quăterni, ae, a (

I gen. plur. quaternūm, Liv. 6, 22, 7; Col. 5, 5, 2; Plin. 9, 3, 2, § 4), adj. plur. [quattuor].

I Four each, by fours, four at a time: quaternos denarios in singulas vini amphoras exegisse, Cic. Font. 5, 9: primam aciem quaternae cohortes ex V. legionibus tenebant, i. e. four from each legion, Caes. B. C. 1, 83: saepe tribus lectis videas cenare quaternos, Hor. S. 1, 4, 86.—

II Four together, four at once: propter bis quaternas causas, Varr. L. L. 5, 1, 6; Aus. ldyll. 10, 60; Sedul. 2, 175; Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 64.

In the wild

quaternas Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.77
quaternis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p2
quaternisque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.12.p4
quaterna Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.13.4
quaternisve Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p4
quaterna Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.22

6 of 180 attestations shown.

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