Re: Primary, secondary, tertiary...
| From: | Matthew Bladen <matthew.bladen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 22, 2002, 0:07 |
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Thursday, March 21, 2002, 11:02:48 PM, Bob Greenwade wrote:
BG> ...then what? Does anyone know what the fourth and fifth words in the
BG> list would be? Or what this classification of numbers is (compared to
BG> cardinal, ordinal, fractional, etc.)? (These are needed for two different
BG> clarifications in my Rav Zarruvo grammar.)
'Fourth' is 'quaternary'. I can't find one for 'fifth'; I imagine that
'quintenary' (from Latin 'quintus', fifth) would do. The definition in my
dictionary (_Concise Oxford Dictionary_, 8th edition) refers to this
series as 'distributive': "(of a pronoun etc.) referring to each
individual of a class, not to the class collectively." In Latin, these
words mean 'of the first', 'of the second', 'of the third' and so on.
So maybe 'distributive ordinal'?
HTH.
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Matthew