Re: Primary, secondary, tertiary...

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'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
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I'm pretty sure that the distributive for 5 is quinary. Back when I
did commerce in school, the sectors of production were primary,
secondary, tertiary, quaternary and quinary... and ooh! a webpage

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/primary

Imperative

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