huitante

See also: huiptante, huitanté, and huitantè

French

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : huitante     Ordinal : huitantième

Alternative forms

• huiptante (Acadia)

Etymology

From Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi.tɑ̃t/

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Numeral

huitante

1. (obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland, and other dialects:, Acadia) eighty

   Il a écrit huitante mots. ― He wrote eighty words.

   Synonyms: (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura) quatre-vingts, octante

Related terms

• huit

See also

• nonante
• septante

Further reading

• “huitante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.