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Latin
Latin numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c], [d] ← 17
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XVIII 18
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19 → [a], [b], [c]
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Cardinal: duodēvīgintī, octōdecim, ogdecim Ordinal: duodēvīcēsimus, decimus octāvus, octāvus decimus, octōdecimus Adverbial: octodecies Proportional: octodecuplus Distributive: duodēvīcēnus
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Etymology
Literally "two from twenty"; from duo (“two”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive form octōdecim.
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duodēvīgintī (indeclinable)
- eighteen; 18
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 2.5:
- castra in altitudinem pedum XII vallo fossaque duodeviginti pedum muniri iubet.
- He orders him to fortify a camp with a rampart twelve feet in height, and a trench eighteen feet in breadth.
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
De vita Caesarum divi Augusti 65:
- G. et L. in duodeviginti mensium spatio amisit ambos, Gaio in Lycia, Lucio Massiliae defunctis.
- He lost Gaius and Lucius within the span of eighteen months, for the former died in Lycia and the latter at Massilia.
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References
- “duodeviginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “duodeviginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duodeviginti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.