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10 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
originFrom Middle English quaterniǒun, from Late Latin quaterniō, from quaternī (“four each”) + -iō, from quater (“four times”). Doublet of kern. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- ortanique 18
- aequorin 17
- antiquer 17
- equation 17
- quainter 17
- requinto 17
- antique 16
- equator 16
- quinate 16
- quinnat 16
- quinone 16
- quintan 16