viginti

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Interlingua[edit]

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viginti

  1. twenty

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Latin[edit]

Latin numbers (edit)
200
 ←  10 [a], [b], [c] ←  19 XX
20 		21  → [a], [b] 30  → 
2
    Cardinal: vīgintī
    Ordinal: vīcēsimus, vīgēsimus, vīcēnsimus, vīgēnsimus, vīcēnsumus
    Adverbial: vīciēs, vīciēns, vīgēsiēs
    Distributive: vīcēnus, vīgēnus
    Fractional: vīcēsimus, vīgēsimus, vīcēnsimus, vīgēnsimus, vīcēnsumus
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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *wīkentī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wi-(h₁)-ḱm̥t-ih₁,[1] from *dwi-(h₁)-dḱm̥t-ih₁, *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two tens, two decades”). See also vicesimus and vicies.

Cognate with Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśatí), Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Old Irish fiche, Welsh ugain, Breton ugent, Tocharian A wiki.

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vīgintī (indeclinable)[2][3][4][5]

  1. twenty; 20
    Habet annos viginti.
    He is twenty years old.
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 27:28:
      qui submittentes invenerunt passus viginti et pusillum inde separati invenerunt passus quindecim
      "And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms."

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Reflexes of the contracted variant vintī:

Reflexes of a variant */ˈβɪinti/[6]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīgintī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 678
  2. ^ “viginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ “viginti”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  4. ^ viginti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  5. ^ Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • it is more than twenty years ago: amplius sunt (quam) viginti anni or viginti annis
    • twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
    • twenty years ago: abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annis
    • to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis
  6. ^ Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 160
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