Where does “quinario” come from?

quinario (Italian) comes from Latin quīnārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

quinario (Italian): quinary; A line of verse containing five...

Definitions

  1. quinary; A line of verse containing five...

Ancestry of “quinario”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinquīnāriusContaining or consisting of five things
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin quīnārius →