sesqui: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>sesquĭ</b>: (sesque),<br /><b>I</b> num. adv. [perh. contr. from [[semis]]-qui], one [[half]] [[more]], [[more]] by a [[half]]. As a [[separate]] [[word]] it occurs [[only]] [[once]]: ut [[necesse]] [[sit]] partem [[pedis]] aut aequalem alteri parti aut altero tanto aut [[sesqui]] esse majorem ([[just]] [[after]], [[sesquiplex]]), Cic. Or. 56, 188. But freq. joined in one [[word]] [[with]] designations of [[number]] or [[quantity]], [[with]] the signif. of [[once]] and a [[half]]. Joined [[with]] numerals ([[octavus]] and [[tertius]]), [[like]] the Gr. ἐπί (in [[ἐπόγδοος]], [[ἐπίτριτος]]>, etc.), it denotes an [[integer]] and [[such]] a [[fraction]] [[over]] as the [[numeral]] designates; v. [[sesquioctavus]], etc.