duodeoctoginta

• Symbol: LXXVIII

Literally "two from eighty"; duo (“two”) + dē (“from”) + octōgintā (“eighty”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [du.ɔ.de.ɔk.toːˈɡɪn.taː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪u.o.d̪e.ok.t̪oˈd͡ʒin̪.t̪a]

duodeoctōgintā (indeclinable)

1. seventy-eight; 78

Although duodeoctōgintā is the usual expression for 78, it is also possible to say septuāgintā octō (“seventy-eight”) or octō et septuāgintā (“eight and seventy”).

• octōgintā
• ūndeoctōgintā

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

• “duodeoctoginta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• duodeoctoginta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.