TODAY’S WORD

quaternion

● PRONUNCIATION: (kwuh/kwah

TUHR-nee-uhn)

● MEANING: noun: A set of four

persons, things, etc.

● ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quattuor (four). Earliest documented use: 1384.

USAGE: “There were four of us then, not merely two, and in our quaternion the vintage sap flowed freely, flowed and bled and boiled as it may never again.”

John H awkes; The Blood Oranges; New Directions; 1972.