ducenti

Latin

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Cardinal: ducentī     Ordinal: ducentēsimus     Distributive: ducēnus

Etymology 1

From duo (“two”) + centum (“hundred”).

Alternative forms

• Symbol: CC

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /duˈken.tiː/, [d̪ʊˈkɛn̪t̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈt͡ʃen.ti/, [d̪uˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪i]

Numeral

ducentī (feminine ducentae, neuter ducenta); first/second-declension numeral, plural only

1. two hundred; 200

Usage notes

Used as a plural adjective. For more information see Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective, plural only.

Number	Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ducentī	ducentae	ducenta
Genitive	ducentōrum	ducentārum	ducentōrum
Dative	ducentīs
Accusative	ducentōs	ducentās	ducenta
Ablative	ducentīs
Vocative	ducentī	ducentae	ducenta

Descendants

• Direct reflexes:
  • Friulian: duzinte
  • Italian: dugento (regional)
  • Old Catalan: doents
  • Old Spanish: dozientos
  • Portuguese: duzentos
  • Sardinian: duchentos (Nuorese), dughentos (Logudorese), duxentus (Campidanese)
• Later formations ('two' + 'hundred'):
  • Catalan: dos-cents
  • French: deux cents
  • Italian: duecento
  • Occitan: dos cents
  • Spanish: doscientos
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: ducent

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dūcēns, which is a participle of dūcō.

Participle

dūcentī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of dūcēns

References

• “ducenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ducenti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “ducenti”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 214
• duecènto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana