quadraginta

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quadrāgintā     Ordinal : quadrāgēsimus     Adverbial : quadrāgiēns     Distributive : quādrāgēnī

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XL

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τετρώκοντα (tetrṓkonta) and Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa.draːˈɡin.taː/, [kʷa.draːˈɡɪn.taː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.draˈd͡ʒin.ta/

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Numeral

quadrāgintā (indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) forty; 40

Derived terms

• duodēquadrāgintā
• ūndēquadrāgintā

Descendants

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• Corsican: quaranta
• Dalmatian: quaranta
• Emilian: quaranta
• Franco-Provençal: quaranta
• Friulian: cuarante
• Istriot: quaranta
• Ladin: caranta
• Ligurian: quaranta
• Lombard: quaranta
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: quarenta, quaranta
• Neapolitan: quaranta
• Old French: quarante
  • Middle French:
    • French: quarante
      • Antillean Creole: karant
      • Guianese Creole: karant
      • Haitian Creole: karant, karann
      • Louisiana Creole French: karant, karannt
      • Mauritian Creole: karaṅt
      • Seychellois Creole: karant
  • Norman: tcherànte (Guernsey), quarante (Jersey)
  • Walloon: karantt
• Old Italian:
  • Italian: quaranta
• Old Leonese: quarenta
  • Asturian: cuarenta
  • Leonese: cuarenta

• Old Portuguese: quaraenta, quareenta, quarenta, quaranta
  • Galician: corenta
  • Portuguese: quarenta, corenta
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: korenta, kuarenta
    • Indo-Portuguese: corent, quorenta, correntè, currento
    • Kabuverdianu: korénta
    • Kadiwéu: cwareenta
    • Korlai Creole Portuguese: korɛ̃t
    • Kristang: korenta
    • Principense: kwarenta
• Old Provençal: quaranta
  • Occitan: quaranta
  • Old Catalan: quaranta
    • Catalan: quaranta
• Old Spanish:
  • Extremaduran: cuarenta
  • Ladino: kuarenta
  • Spanish: cuarenta
    • Papiamentu: cuarenta
• Piedmontese: quaranta
• Romagnol: quaranta
• Romansch: quaranta, curonta, curànta, curanta, quaraunta
• Sabir: quaranta
• Sardinian: baranta, caranta
• Sicilian: quaranta
• Venetian: cuaranta, quaranta

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

References

• quadraginta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadraginta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “quadraginta”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “quadraginta” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)