The corpus record — Latin

quinarius

quinarius · adj

containing five

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

quīnārĭus — Lewis & Short

quīnārĭus, a, um, adj.quini,

I containing five (mostly post-Aug.): quinaria (fistula) dicta a diametro quinque quadrantum, a pipe which was five quarter-digits in diameter, Front. Aquaed. 25; so, fistulae, Plin. 31, 6, 31, § 58: quinarius nummus, and absol., quinarius, a half denarius: denarii quod denos aeris valebant: quinarii, quod quinos, Varr. L. L. 5, § 173 Müll.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44: numerus, Serv. Verg. G. 1, 277; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6.

In the wild

quinariae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.6.p1
quinariam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.6.p1
quinarium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p2
quinarium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p2
quinariae Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.4
quinaria Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.6.p1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.