tredecim
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Latin [edit]
| < XII | XIII | XIV > |
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| Cardinal : tredecim Ordinal : tertius decimus |
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Alternative forms [edit]
- Symbol: XIII
Etymology [edit]
From trēs (“three”) + decem (“ten”).
Pronunciation [edit]
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tredecim (indeclinable)
- (cardinal) thirteen; 13
- p. 27 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, liber IX
- Miremur si, cum ex hac parte saecula plura numerentur quam ex illa anni, plus in tam longo spatio quam in aetate tredecim annorum fortuna uariauerit?
- "Where more generations are reckoned on one side than years on the other, can we be surprised that in such a long space of time there have been more changes of fortune than in a period of thirteen years?"
- Miremur si, cum ex hac parte saecula plura numerentur quam ex illa anni, plus in tam longo spatio quam in aetate tredecim annorum fortuna uariauerit?
- 69-70 CE, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae liber II, lxxxiii
- sed legio sexta et tredecim vexillariorum milia ingenti agmine sequebantur
- "Behind him, however, came in a vast body the 6th legion and 13,000 veterans."
- sed legio sexta et tredecim vexillariorum milia ingenti agmine sequebantur
- 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Genesis 17:25
- et Ismahel filius eius tredecim annos impleverat tempore circumcisionis suae
- "And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."
- et Ismahel filius eius tredecim annos impleverat tempore circumcisionis suae
- p. 27 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, liber IX
