The story
- Latin · derived fromquīnārius“containing five each”
- English todayquinary
From the Latin quīnārius (“containing five each”), from quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quinaire, the Italian quinario, and the Portuguese quinário. Doublet of quinarius.
Words from the same roots
Latinquīnārius all →
quinarius
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.