nonary
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Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Germanic collective: ninesome Collective of n parts: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium |
Etymology
[edit]From the Latin nōnārius, from nōnus (“ninth”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).
Adjective
[edit]nonary (not comparable)
- Of ninth rank or order.
- 1984 January 9, L. J. Walpole, “Fourth-Rank Tensors of the Thirty-Two Crystal Classes: Multiplication Tables”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, volume 391, number 1800, →JSTOR, pages 149–179:
- […] and the rhombic algebra is established as the direct sum of the nonary subalgebra of the Upq and of the three unary subalgebras generated individually by V, W and X, […]
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[edit]See also
[edit]- primary (1)
- secondary (2)
- tertiary (3)
- quaternary (4)
- quinary (5)
- senary (6)
- septenary (7)
- octonary (8)
- denary (10)
- duodenary (12)
- vigenary (20)