Is there a word for four times as much, analogous to once, twice, and thrice?

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Is there a word for 'four times as much', analogous to once, twice, and thrice?

I don't care if it's not a word, I'm going to start using "frice" just to weird people out.
I hereby propose that henceforth "quadrice" and "quince" shall mean four and five times, respectively! "He struck me not twice, not thrice, but quadrice!" "How ghastly! At least he didst not strike thee quince!" "Nay not at that moment, but later in the day he did!"
Actually, since once, twice, and thrice come from one, two, and three plus the Old English genitive ending -es (the source of the apostrophe-s for possessive), the correct words would be more along the lines of fource, fifce / fivce, sice, sevence, eightce, nince, tence, etc.
There is a charming book by Alastair Reid, called Ounce, Dice, Trice in which (among many other kinds of wordplay) he creates novel numbering systems. From memory, one is "ounce, dice, trice, quartz, quince, sago, serpent, oculist, novelist, dentist".
Why was sago afraid of the serpent? Cause serpent oculist novelist!! Oh wait, darn...

RegDwighт · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-15 09:38:22Z

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Not according to the Oxford dictionaries:

These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed.

edited Dec 15 '10 at 9:38

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answered Dec 14 '10 at 19:48

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kiamlaluno · Answer 2 · 2011-07-12 22:20:06Z

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What comes after once, twice, thrice?

Nothing! These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed.

edited Jul 12 '11 at 22:20

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answered Dec 14 '10 at 19:46

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I would quote what that page says, just in case the link goes dead. – RegDwighт♦ Dec 14 '10 at 19:50

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@RegDwight so would Dusty :) – Sparr Dec 15 '10 at 9:25

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