eleven

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Translingual

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English eleven.

Pronunciation

Noun

eleven

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 11, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

English

English numbers (edit)
110
 ←  10 11 12  → 
    Cardinal: eleven
    Ordinal: eleventh
    Latinate ordinal: undecimary
    Adverbial: eleven times
    Multiplier: elevenfold
    Latinate multiplier: undecuple
    Germanic collective: elevensome
    Greek or Latinate collective: hendecad
    Greek collective prefix: hendeca-
    Latinate collective prefix: undeca-
    Fractional: eleventh
    Number of musicians: undecet
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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (one left) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (leave, remain). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

Pronunciation

Numeral

eleven

  1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
    • 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:
      It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.
    • 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:
      I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven []
    • 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:
      It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.

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Translations

See also

Noun

eleven (plural elevens)

  1. (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
  2. (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
  3. (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
    A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
    B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
  4. (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
    1. An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
    2. A very high level of intensity.

Synonyms

  • (sarcastic substitution for !): one, 1

Derived terms

See also


Catalan

Verb

eleven

  1. third-person plural present indicative of elevar

Danish

Noun

eleven c

  1. definite singular of elev

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the obsolete form of the present participle élő (living),[1] originally an adverb, compare hirtelen, meztelen.[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

eleven (comparative elevenebb, superlative legelevenebb)

  1. (literary or archaic) alive
    Synonym: élő
  2. lively
    Synonyms: élénk, fürge

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative eleven elevenek
accusative elevent eleveneket
dative elevennek eleveneknek
instrumental elevennel elevenekkel
causal-final elevenért elevenekért
translative elevenné elevenekké
terminative elevenig elevenekig
essive-formal elevenként elevenekként
essive-modal
inessive elevenben elevenekben
superessive elevenen eleveneken
adessive elevennél eleveneknél
illative elevenbe elevenekbe
sublative elevenre elevenekre
allative elevenhez elevenekhez
elative elevenből elevenekből
delative elevenről elevenekről
ablative eleventől elevenektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
elevené eleveneké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
elevenéi elevenekéi

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ eleven in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ eleven in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • eleven in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • eleven in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Middle English

Numeral

eleven

  1. Alternative form of elleven

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eleven m

  1. definite singular of elev

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

eleven m

  1. definite singular of elev

Spanish

Verb

eleven

  1. inflection of elevar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Noun

eleven

  1. definite singular of elev

Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)
 ←  10 11 12  → 
    Cardinal: eleven

Etymology

From English eleven.

Numeral

eleven

  1. eleven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also wanpela ten wan.

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