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(4) quattuor always appears in the form of a pre- 

 fix, regularly quadri- cornis, four-homed; quadri- 

 punctatus, four-spotted; quadri-dentatus, four- 

 toothed; but influenced by the form and sound of quattu- 

 or and quartus, that quadri- may also appear as 

 quadru-: e. g. quadru-manus, as well as quadri- 

 manus, four-handed; quadru-pes as well as quadri- 

 pes, quad?-u-ped; etc. Elision will, of course, take 

 place when the second member begins with a vowel: 

 e.g. quadr-angulus, quadrangle. 



(5) From quinque on, the indeclinable numerals 

 are simply prefixes, suffering no change when they enter 

 into composition, subject, of course, to the usual phonetic 

 laws 1 : e. g. quinque-libris , five-found; sex-punc- 

 t a t u s , six-spotted ; septem-flu-us, sevenfold-flow- 

 ing; octo-punctatus, etc. The declinable numerals 

 of the higher orders are treated like other adjectives, 

 while centum also may follow the same analogy 

 making centi-peda, hundred-footed; centi-manus, 



hundred-handed ; 



but 



also 



centum-peda; centu- 



plex; etc. 











a 



n 



a 

 3 

 

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a 



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 u 

 V 



> 



+ 



(Stem-vowel) 



+ 



M 

 c 

 ■3 



a 



QJ 

 V 

 X 



U 



3. magn(o)- 



i- 



fic- 



U- 



s, great-making; 



furi(i)- 





amb 



ul- u- 



s, rope-walking ; 



sacr(o)- 



i- 



f ec- 





s, sacrifice-?Jiaking ; 



part- 



i- 



cep- 





s, sharing; 



mort- 



i- 



f er, 





death-dealing. 



1 5- quinque- is the rule; but the rule is not meant to include the com- 

 pound numerals like quin-decim, quinqua-ginta, quin-genti, etc., 

 nor strange forms like quincu-plex and quincu-pes, which are obviously 

 formed after the analogy of quadru-plex and quadru-pes. 



6. ses-centi, se-mestris and their derivatives, conform to the rule, 

 while se -pes is made after the analogy of se-mestris. 



7. Besides septem- we find sometimes septu- and septi-, which arose 

 from analogy with quadru- and quadri-, octu- and octi-; or possibly 



