Is there a word for 'four times as much', analogous to once, twice, and thrice?
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25I don't care if it's not a word, I'm going to start using "frice" just to weird people out.– ChrisCommented Dec 14, 2010 at 21:00
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15I 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!"– ClaudiuCommented Dec 14, 2010 at 21:34
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14Actually, 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.– Jon PurdyCommented Dec 14, 2010 at 23:40
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9There 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".– Colin FineCommented Dec 15, 2010 at 11:41
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8Why was sago afraid of the serpent? Cause serpent oculist novelist!! Oh wait, darn...– ClaudiuCommented Dec 15, 2010 at 15:04
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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.
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2The link is dead. A new link is here: lexico.com/explore/what-comes-after-once-twice-thrice– VictorCommented Apr 14, 2021 at 8:39
No, there isn't.
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.
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13I would quote what that page says, just in case the link goes dead. Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 19:50
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1The link is dead. A new link is here: lexico.com/explore/what-comes-after-once-twice-thrice– VictorCommented Apr 14, 2021 at 8:38