duodeviginti
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Latin[edit]
| XVII | XVIII | XIX |
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| Cardinal : duodēvīgintī Ordinal : duodēvīcēsimus |
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Alternative forms[edit]
- Symbol: XVIII
Etymology[edit]
Literally "two from twenty"; from duo (“two”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive form octōdecim.
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
duodēvīgintī (indeclinable)
- (cardinal) eighteen; 18
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100 BCE – 44 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.
- castra in altitudinem pedum XII vallo fossaque duodeviginti pedum muniri iubet.
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121 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.
- G. et L. in duodeviginti mensium spatio amisit ambos, Gaio in Lycia, Lucio Massiliae defunctis.
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