quaternity.
A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet.
Meaning & usage
A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet.
A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet. A group of four persons forming the Godhead, in contrast to the Trinity comprising three persons.
Synonym of quarter (“a fourth part”).
Synonym of fourness (“the property or state of being four in number”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder. Latin quater Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -nus Latin quaternus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Late Latin quaternitāslbor. Old French quaternité Middle French quaternitélbor. ▲ Late Latin quaternitāslbor. English quaternity Learned borrowing from Middle French quaternité (“set of four things; (Christianity) dogma that there are four persons in the Godhead”), from Old French quaternité (modern French quaternité); and from their etymon Late Latin quaternitās (“set of four things; (Christianity) group of four persons in the Godhead”) (modelled after trīnitās (“triad; (Christianity) the Trinity”)) + English -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns). Quaternitās is derived from Latin quaternī + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting states of being); and quaternī is an inflection of quaternus (“four at a time; fourfold”), from quater (“four times”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”)) + -nus (suffix forming distributive numerals). By surface analysis, quatern + -ity.
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