The story
- Latin · derived fromsēnārius“consisting of six each”
- English todaysenary
From the Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of senarius.
Words from the same roots
Latinsēnārius all →
senariussexenary
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.