The story
- Latin · derived fromquīngēnī“500 each”
- Latin · derived fromquīngēnārius“containing 500”
- English todayquingenary
From Latin quīngēnārius (“containing 500”), from Latin quīngēnī (“500 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīngentī (“five hundreds”). Cognate with quingenarious and quinquagenary.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.