undeviginti
Latin
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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]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Numeral
ūndēvīgintī (indeclinable)
- 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"
- Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato consilio et privata impensa comparavi
- 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.
- Intervalla quoque siderum a terra multi indagare temptarunt, et solem abesse a luna undeviginti partes quantam lunam ipsam a terra prodiderunt.
- c. 14 C.E., Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, "Res gestae Divi Augusti", 1.1
Synonyms
- (nineteen): novemdecim, novendecim
Related terms
See also
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.