quorum: [15] Quorum began life as the genitive plural of the Latin pronoun quī ‘who’. This appeared in former times in the Latin text of commissions issued to persons who because of some special expertise were required to act as justices of the peace in a particular case (if two JPs were required, for instance, the wording would be quorum vos … duos esse volumnus ‘of whom we wish that you … be two’). In due course the word came to be used as a noun, denoting the ‘number of justices who must be present in order to try the case’, and in the 17th century this was generalized to ‘minimum number of members necessary for a valid meeting’.
quorum (n.)
early 15c., in reference to certain eminent justices of the peace, from Latin quorum "of whom," genitive plural (masc. and neuter; fem. quarum) of qui "who" (see who). The traditional wording of the commission appointing justices of the peace translates as, "We have also assigned you, and every two or more of you (of whom [quoram vos] any one of you the aforesaid A, B, C, D, etc. we will shall be one) our justices to inquire the truth more fully." The justices so-named usually were called the justices of the quorum. Meaning "fixed number of members whose presence is necessary to transact business" is first recorded 1610s.
例文
1. Failed the load string for locating existing quorum resource.
既存のアービトレーションリソースを検索できなかった場合に文字列をロードする.
2.One-half of the members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum .
（b）実行委員会委員の半数が会議の法定人数を構成している。
3.The cluster quorum resource is not allowed to have any dependencies.
クラスタ調停リソースに依存関係は許可されていません。
4. Quorum resource is not joinable.A multi-node cluster can not be created.
は調停リソースに参加できません。マルチノードクラスタを作成できません。
5.Objective：To understand the effects of quorum sensing system on P.