četrnaest

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Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: četrnaest
    Ordinal: četrnaesti
    Multiplier: četrnaestostruk
    Collective: četrnaestoro, četrnaestorica
    Fractional: četrnaestina

Etymology

From čètiri (four) +‎ na (on) +‎ dȅset (ten). Cognates include Slovene štirinájst. First attested in the 15th century.[1]

Numeral

četr̀naēst (Cyrillic spelling четр̀нае̄ст)

  1. fourteen

Usage notes

This number is indeclinable. It governs the genitive plural of the noun.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “četrnaest”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 129