Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quindenary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quin-denary
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.

Example Sentences

"[…] it and M. Hermite's form ; the latter is intrinsically a quinary group of triadic products, but such representation in the case of M. Joubert's form is purely conventional and confusing, it really being a single indecomposable quindenary product."
"[…] or 44 in the quindenary scale."
"Each number had two names: a vowel and a consonant, from which the Reader can already see that they did not use the decimal but the quindenary numerical system."

Etymology

From Latin quindēnārius (“containing fifteen”). Equivalent to quindene + -ary.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: quindēnārius
Suffix: quindene

Questions

What does quindenary mean?: Containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.
Where does quindenary come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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