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Erudite Fluther vocabularians, what is the word for the 4th level of separateness? (See details)

Asked by canidmajor (21583points) April 20th, 2015

I am looking for one word, the next one in the sequence of “primary”, “secondary”, “tertiary” and… what? What’s the next one???

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thorninmud's avatar

Edited because, well, wrong.

zenvelo's avatar

Quaternary.

gailcalled's avatar

Yahoo! (among others) to the rescue.

quaternary = fourth in order or level
quinary = fifth in order or level
senary = sixth in order or level
septenary = seventh in order or level
octonary = eighth in order or level
nonary = ninth in order or level
denary = tenth in order or level

zenvelo's avatar

Unless you are referring to the fourth to last, which is “preantepenultimate”.

(The fifth to last is “suprapreantepenultimate”.

janbb's avatar

I was just about to say what Gail said. (Ha!)

canidmajor's avatar

I knew I could get better and funner answers from you guys faster than I could figure out how to word the query somewhere else.
Thanks so much! :-D

janbb's avatar

@zenvelo I think you’re thinking of songs from “Mary Poppins!”

janbb's avatar

Now that the gang’s all here, who wants to come over for tea and cake?

gailcalled's avatar

Erm, “funner”?

canidmajor's avatar

Yup, @gailcalled, “funner”. A deliberately whimsical moment in a rainy morning. Not all statements need to be absolutely grammatically correct in a light-hearted exchange.

janbb's avatar

Would that be grampatically in the masculine gender?

canidmajor's avatar

Oooooh, @janbb, I saw what you did ther! (I left off the “e” to enhance the concept of the masculin.). ;-)

janbb's avatar

Pun-ish me if you must.

Coloma's avatar

Finding this little discourse quite informative and amusing. “funner.” haha

Buttonstc's avatar

I thought it was four degrees of Kevin Bacon :)

dxs's avatar

@zenvelo “suprapreantepenultimate” lol

Strauss's avatar

So, if one were to be considered the suprapreantepenultimate punster, that would mean that there are four better (or worse)?

I’m incorrigible, don’t incorrige me!

zenvelo's avatar

@Yetanotheruser That would be fourplay…

Strauss's avatar

@zenvelo been there, done that!
my bifocals made it look like you said foul play!

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