The corpus record — Latin

quinquagenarius

containing fifty of anything

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. quinquagenarius — de Vaan

quinquagenarius 'containing fifty of anything' (Cato+), quinquagesies 'fifty times' (PL), qumgend 'five hundred' (PL+); quinquatrus, -uum [f-pL] 'festival of Minerva, lasting five days in March' (PL+), quinquertid 'one who competes in the pentathlon' (Andr.); quim 'five at a time' (PL+), quvnarius 'containing five each; coin worth five asses9 (Varro+), quJnavicenarius 'relating to twenty-five' (PL), quincunx, -ncis … — [de Vaan, s.v. quinquagenarius, p. 523]

2. quinquāgēnārĭus — Lewis & Short

quinquāgēnārĭus, a, um, adj.quinquageni.

I Consisting of fifty, containing fifty: grex equarum, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 11: dolium, Cato, R. R. 69, 2: urna, id. ib. 10, 2: fistula, the plate of which, before being bent, was fifty inches in width, Vitr. 8, 7: quinquagenarius (homo), fifty years old, Quint. 9, 2, 85.—

II Subst.: quinquāgēnārĭi, among the Israelites, military officers commanding fifty men, captains over fifty, Hier. in Isa. 2, 3, 3; Vulg. Exod. 18, 21; id. Deut. 1, 15; id. 1 Reg. 1, 9 sq.

In the wild

quinquagenariam Cato, De agri cultura 13
quinquagenaria Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.4
quinquagenariam Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 17
quinquagenariae Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.6.4
quinquagenarium Cato, De agri cultura 112
quinquagenariam Cato, De agri cultura 10

6 of 8 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. quinquagenarius (scan p. 523; entry #1450). Root candidates: *peteria-, *peturia-.

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