undeviginti

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ūndēvīgintī     Ordinal : ūndēvīcēsimus
Latin Wikipedia article on ūndēvīgintī

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XIX

Etymology

Literally "one from twenty"; from ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive forms novendecim and novemdecim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uːn.deː.u̯iːˈɡin.tiː/, [uːn̪d̪eːu̯iːˈɡɪn̪t̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /un.de.viˈd͡ʒin.ti/, [un̪d̪eviˈd͡ʒin̪t̪i]

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Numeral

ūndēvīgintī (indeclinable)

1. nineteen; 19
   • c. 14 C.E., Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, "Res gestae Divi Augusti", 1.1

     Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato consilio et privata impensa comparavi

     "At the age of nineteen I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense"

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.83:

     Intervalla quoque siderum a terra multi indagare temptarunt, et solem abesse a luna undeviginti partes quantam lunam ipsam a terra prodiderunt.

     Many persons have attempted to discover the distance of the stars from the earth, and they have published as the result, that the sun is nineteen times as far from the moon, as the moon herself is from the earth.

Synonyms

• (nineteen): novemdecim, novendecim

Related terms

• duodēvīgintī
• vīgintī

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

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