quadraginta

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		400
←  30	←  39	XL 40	41  →	50  →
		4
Cardinal: quadrāgintā     Ordinal: quadrāgēsimus     Adverbial: quadrāgiēns, quadrāgiēs     Proportional: quadrāgecuplus, quadragintuplus     Distributive: quadrāgēnus

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XL

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τετρώκοντα (tetrṓkonta) and Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷa.draːˈɡin.taː/, [kʷäd̪räːˈɡɪn̪t̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.draˈd͡ʒin.ta/, [kwäd̪räˈd͡ʒin̪t̪ä]

Numeral

quadrāgintā (indeclinable)

1. forty; 40

Derived terms

• duodēquadrāgintā
• ūndēquadrāgintā
• quarranta (late)

Related terms

• quattuor

Descendants

Most reflect the late form quarranta, with a notable exception in Iberia.

• Dalmatian:
  • quaranta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: quaranta
  • Italian: quaranta
    • → Sabir: quaranta
  • Neapolitan: quaranta
  • Sicilian: quaranta
• Northern Italian:
  • Emilian: quaranta
  • Friulian: cuarante
  • Istriot: quaranta
  • Ladin: caranta
  • Ligurian: quaranta
  • Lombard: quaranta
  • Piedmontese: quaranta
  • Romagnol: quarânta
  • Romansch: quaranta, curonta, curànta, curanta, quaraunta
  • Venetan: cuaranta, quaranta
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: quaranta
  • Old French: quarante
    • Middle French: quarante
      • French: quarante (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: tcherànte (Guernsey), quarante (Jersey)
    • Walloon: cwarante, karantt
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Aragonese: quarenta, quaranta
  • Catalan: quaranta, coranta
    • → Sardinian: coranta (Campidanese)
  • Occitan: quaranta
• West Iberian:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: cuarenta
    • Extremaduran: cuarenta
    • Leonese: cuarenta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: quaraenta, quareenta, quarenta, quaranta
    • Galician: corenta
    • Portuguese: quarenta (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: cuaraenta, quaraenta
    • Ladino: kuarenta
    • Spanish: cuarenta
      • Papiamentu: cuarenta
      • → Cebuano: kwarenta
      • → Tagalog: kuwarenta
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: baranta (Logudorese), cuaranta (Campidanese)

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
• quadraginta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadraginta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.