eighty
Appearance
English
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| Cardinal: eighty Ordinal: eightieth Abbreviated ordinal: 80th Adverbial: eighty times Multiplier: eightyfold Fractional: eightieth | ||||
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English eightety, eiȝti, eiȝtety, from Old English hundeahtatiġ, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutēhundą (“eighty”), equivalent to eight + -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), Saterland Frisian tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Numeral
[edit]eighty
- The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.
- Synonym: fourscore (archaic)
- 2025 September 19, Peter Charalambous, “Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House”, in ABC News[1], archived from the original on 20 September 2025:
- Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge[sic] H. W. Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but fails to establish the two counts of defamation alleged.
Derived terms
[edit]- eighties
- eightieth
- eighty-eight
- eighty-eighth
- eighty-eleven
- eighty-fifth
- eighty-first
- eighty-five
- eighty-four
- eighty-fourth
- eightyish
- eighty-nine
- eighty-ninth
- eightyodd
- eighty-seven
- eighty-seventh
- eighty-six
- eighty-sixth
- eightysomething, eighty-something
- eighty-third
- eighty-three
- eighty-two
- one-eighty, 180
- one eighty out, 180-out
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]80
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See also
[edit]Symbols for eighty in various numeral systems
- Arabic numerals: 80
- Roman numerals: LXXX
- Chinese numerals: 捌拾, 八十
- Eastern Arabic numerals: ٨٠
- Tibetan numerals: ༨༠
- Hindi numerals: ८०
- Gujarati numerals: ૮૦
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੮੦
- Bengali numerals: ৮০
- Chakma numerals: 𑄾𑄶
- Odia numerals: ୮୦
- Telugu numerals: ౮౦
- Kannada numerals: ೮೦
- Malayalam numerals: ൮൦
- Tamil numerals: ௮௰
- Khmer numerals: ៨០
- Thai numerals: ๘๐
- Lao numerals: ໘໐
- Myanmar numerals: ၈၀
- Amharic numerals: ፰፲
- Mongolian numerals: ᠘᠐
- Limbu numerals: ᥎᥆
- Last: seventy-nine, seventy
- Next: eighty-one, ninety
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms suffixed with -ty (multiple)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪti
- Rhymes:English/eɪti/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English numerals
- English terms with quotations
- English cardinal numbers
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