duodeviginti

Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c], [d] ←  17 XVIII
18 		19  → [a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: duodēvīgintī, decem et octō, octōdecim, ogdecim
    Ordinal: duodēvīcēsimus, decimus octāvus, octāvus decimus, octōdecimus
    Adverbial: octōdeciēs
    Proportional: octōdecuplus
    Distributive: duodēvīcēnus, octōnus dēnus

Alternative forms

  • Symbol: XVIII

Etymology

Literally "two from twenty"; from duo (“two”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive form octōdecim.

Pronunciation

Numeral

duodēvīgintī (indeclinable)

  1. eighteen; 18
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 2.5:
      castra in altitudinem pedum XII vallo fossaque duodeviginti pedum muniri iubet.
      He orders him to fortify a camp with a rampart twelve feet in height, and a trench eighteen feet in breadth.
    • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Augusti 65:
      G. et L. in duodeviginti mensium spatio amisit ambos, Gaio in Lycia, Lucio Massiliae defunctis.
      He lost Gaius and Lucius within the span of eighteen months, for the former died in Lycia and the latter at Massilia.

Synonyms

See also

  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

  • “duodeviginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “duodeviginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • duodeviginti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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