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Latin
Latin numbers (edit)
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200
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[a], [b], [c], [d] ← 19
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XX
20
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21 → [a], [b]
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30 →
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2[a], [b]
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Cardinal: vīgintī
Ordinal: vīcēsimus, vīgēsimus, vīcēnsimus, vīgēnsimus, vīcēnsumus
Adverbial: vīciēs, vīciēns, vīgēsiēs
Proportional: vīgecuplus, vīcecuplus, vigincuplus
Distributive: vīcēnus, vīgēnus
Fractional: vīcēsimus, vīgēsimus, vīcēnsimus, vīgēnsimus, vīcēnsumus
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Etymology
From the stem *vīcent- of vīgintī (“twenty”) before the replacement of /k/ with /ɡ/, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(d)widḱm̥ti(h₁). Particularly:
See also vīciēs and vīcēnus. Surface analysis vīgintī (“twenty”) + -ēsimus (“-th”)
Pronunciation
Numeral
vīcēsimus (feminine vīcēsima, neuter vīcēsimum); first/second-declension numeral
- twentieth
- one-twentieth
- vīcēsimā hērēditātium
- a 5% inheritance tax W.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
- īcas (borrowed from εἰκάς (eikás) to mean the 20th day of a month)
Descendants
Notes
- ^ The innovative use of *-tos to create ordinals and fractionals (“-th”) is found in several other branches of Indo-European. Sihler explains that it may have originated by metanalysis of *dḱm̥t-ós as *dḱm̥-tós, from which the *-t- was then applied analogically to other numerals. This was apparently early enough to trigger the dissimilatory rule *TT > *TˢT (>> Latin ss).
References
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 399, page 433
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīgintī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 678
Further reading
- “vicesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vicesimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vicesimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.