девяносто

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    Cardinal: девяно́сто (devjanósto)
    Ordinal: девяно́стый (devjanóstyj)
    Ordinal abbreviation: 90-ый (90-yj)
    Adverbial: девяно́ста (devjanósta)
    Multiplier: девяностокра́тный (devjanostokrátnyj)
    Collective: девяно́стеро (devjanóstero)
    Fractional: девяноста́я (devjanostája)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic девѧносъто (devęnosŭto), attested since 12th c., of unclear origin. With no parallels outside East Slavic—other Slavic branches point to *devętь desętъ (literally nine tens)—likely to be a late dialectal innovation (even more so considering that the higher decades are less frequent and more prone to innovations). Many explanations have been proposed and recently compared by Anikin, who cautiously supports *devę(t)no sъto 'nine-related hundred'.

Other hypotheses include Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥(d)ḱomt (literally ninth ten), from *h₁néwn̥ (whence де́вять (dévjatʹ)) and *déḱm̥t (whence де́сять (désjatʹ)), with the ending influenced by съто (sŭto, hundred). Compare Latin nōnāgintā and Ancient Greek ἐνενήκοντα (enenḗkonta).

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девяно́сто (devjanósto)

  1. ninety (90)
    • 1928, Александр Беляев [Alexander Belyaev], “Часть первая. «Морской дьявол»”, in Человек-амфибия; English translation from Amphibian Man, (Please provide a date or year):
      В мо́лодости Бальтаза́р был изве́стным ловцо́м же́мчуга: он мог пробы́ть под водо́ю девяно́сто и да́же сто секу́нд — вдво́е бо́льше обы́чного.
      V mólodosti Balʹtazár byl izvéstnym lovcóm žémčuga: on mog probýtʹ pod vodóju devjanósto i dáže sto sekúnd — vdvóje bólʹše obýčnovo.
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Usage notes

девяносто (devjanosto) in the nominative case and accusative case governs the genitive plural of the noun. In other cases, it governs the corresponding plural case of the noun.

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