duodeviginti

Latin

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Cardinal: duodēvīgintī, octōdecim     Ordinal: duodēvīcēsimus, octōdecimus

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XVIII

Etymology

Literally "two from twenty"; from duo (“two”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive form octōdecim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /du.o.deː.wiːˈɡin.tiː/, [d̪ʊ.ɔ.d̪eː.wiːˈɡɪn̪.t̪iː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /du.o.de.viˈd͡ʒin.ti/, [d̪u.ɔ.d̪ɛ.viˈd͡ʒin̪.t̪i]

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Numeral

duodēvīgintī (indeclinable)

1. eighteen; 18
   • c. 52 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.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• octōdecim

Related terms

• ūndēvīgintī
• vīgintī

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

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