different between quinary vs septenary

English

Etymology

From the Latin qu?n?rius (“containing five each”), from qu?n? (“five each”, “five at a time”) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quinaire, the Italian quinario, and the Portuguese quinário. Doublet of quinarius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwa?.n?.?i/, /?kwa?.n??.i/
• Rhymes: -a?n??i, -a?n??i

Adjective

quinary (not comparable)

1. Of fifth rank or order.
2. Consisting of five things; arranged in fives.
3. (arithmetic) To the base of five; represented by the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Translations

Noun

quinary (plural quinaries)

1. (astrology) Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac.

English

Etymology

From the Latin sept?n?rius (“consisting of seven each”), from sept?n? (“seven each”, “seven at a time”) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?p?ti?n??i/

Adjective

septenary (not comparable)

1. Consisting of or containing seven.
2. Of seventh rank or order.
   • 1899 October, W J McGee, The Beginning of Mathematics, in American Anthropologist 1(4), page 657, [1]

     ... indeed if further evidence than that of bestial and savage counting were required to show that finger-numeration and the quinary system were not primeval, it would be afforded by the development of the senary-septenary system in so many lands.

3. Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.

   • Septenary penance.

Translations

See also

• unary (1)
• primary (1st)
• binary (2)
• secondary (2nd)
• ternary (3)
• tertiary (3rd)
• quaternary (4)
• quinary (5)
• senary (6)
• octonary (8)
• nonary (9)
• denary (10)
• duodenary (12)
• vigenary (20)

Noun

septenary (plural septenaries)

1. A group of seven things.
2. A period of seven years.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:

     This idea was based on the doctrine that a man's body changed its character every seven years and that his life was thus made up of ‘septenaries’.

3. (music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.