quindecim

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quīndecim     Ordinal : quīntus decimus
Latin Wikipedia article on quīndecim

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XV

Etymology

From quīnque (“five”) + decem (“ten”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷiːn.de.kim/, [ˈkʷiːn̪d̪ɛkɪ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwin.de.t͡ʃim/, [ˈkwin̪d̪et͡ʃim]

Numeral

quīndecim (indeclinable)

1. fifteen; 15
   • 77-79 AD, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, liber XIV, vii

     quindecim omnino generibus uvarum nominatis, tribus oleae, totidem pirorum, malo vero tantum Assyrio, ceteris omnibus neglectis

     "in all, fifteen varieties of the grape has he named, three of the olive, the same number of the pear, and the citron of Assyria, and has neglected the rest"

   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 9:10:
     (Regnum II)

     erant autem Sibae quindecim filii et viginti servi

     "Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants."

Descendants

• Asturian: quince
• Catalan: quinze
• Corsican: quindeci
• Dalmatian: čonco
• French: quinze
• Friulian: cuindis
• Galician: quince
• Norman: tchînze, tchinze
• Ladino: kinze

• Italian: quindici
• Occitan: quinze
• Portuguese: quinze
• Romansch: quindesch
• Sardinian: bíndhichi
• Sicilian: chìnnici, quìnnici
• Spanish: quince
• Venetian: cuìndexe, quìndexe
• Walloon: cwénze

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

References

• “quindecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quindecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quindecim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to decree a public thanksgiving for fifteen days: supplicationem quindecim dierum decernere (Phil. 14. 14. 37)