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French
French numbers (edit)
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800[a], [b]
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[a], [b] ← 79
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80
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81 → [a], [b], [c], [d], [e]
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90 → [a], [b]
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8
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Cardinal (decimal): huitante, octante
Cardinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingts
Ordinal (decimal): huitantième, octantième
Ordinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingtième
Ordinal abbreviation: 80e, (now nonstandard) 80ème
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Etymology
Inherited from Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.
Pronunciation
Numeral
huitante (invariable)
- (obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland and other dialects: Acadia) eighty
- Synonyms: (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura) quatre-vingts, octante
- Il a écrit huitante mots. ― He wrote eighty words.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 André Thibault, Pierre Knecht, Dictionnaire suisse romand: Particularités lexicales du français contemporain , 2004 (Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland: Éditions Zoé, 1997), p. 457
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