The text from 1631 made use of ordinal numbers.
The ordinal numbers 1st – 10th were already covered in
previous posts.
image #1: ordinal numbers 1st – 10th
Some English derivations from ordinal numbers:
[1] prīmus: primary school i.e. the first school
which a child attends.
[2] secundus: English borrows ‘second’ from Old French, the
word derived from Latin e.g. secondaryeducation
Other Gmc languages use an ordinal from ‘two’: (Gm: zweite;
Du: tweede)
Note: secundus has an alternative meaning of “favourable”:
ventus secundus (a favourable wind)
[3] tertius: tertiary education e.g.
university, the third level after primary and secondary
[4] quārtus: quarter
[5] quīntus: see image #2
[6] nōnus: noon is derived from a Germanic
borrowing of Latin nōna hōra (the 9thhour), originally 3pm; Old Engl: nōn >
Mid. Engl: noen, none, non
[7] octāvus: octavo is a size of paper made by
folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves
[8] decimus: decimate originally meant the
killing of 1/10 of a group as a military punishment in the Roman army
Image #3: ordinal numbers function as adjectives, and they
all decline like 1st/ 2nd declension adjectives.
Image #4: alteris also a 1st / 2nd declension
adjective ending in -er (like miser, -a, -um) but belongs to a small group of
adjectives which have a different singular ending in the [1] masculine and
neuter genitive (-ius) and [2] masculine and neuter dative (-ī). The other
adjectives which take the same endings are:
alius, -a, -ud: another
alter, -a, -um: the other
ūllus, -a, -um: any
nūllus, -a, -um: none; no [in the sense of ‘not any’]
ūter, -a, -um: which [one]; which [of two]
neuter, -a, -um: neither
sōlus, -a, -um: alone
tōtus, -a, -um: whole; entire
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