undeoctoginta

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
← 78	LXXIX 79	80 → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
Cardinal: ūndeoctōgintā Ordinal: ūndeoctōgēsimus

Alternative forms

Symbol: LXXIX

Etymology

Literally "one from eighty"; ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) + octōgintā (“eighty”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːn.de.ɔk.toːˈɡɪn.taː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [un̪.d̪e.ok.t̪oˈd͡ʒin̪.t̪a]

Numeral

ūndeoctōgintā (indeclinable)

seventy-nine; 79

Usage notes

Although ūndeoctōgintā is the usual expression for 79, it is also possible to say septuāgintā novem (“seventy-nine”) or novem et septuāgintā (“nine and seventy”).

Related terms

References

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