What is the next term in the sequence: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary?

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Answer: quinary

Thus: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. It ends here, but there are words for the twelfth order (duodenary), the twentieth order (vigenary), the hundredth (centenary?), and the thousandth (millenary?).

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