duodeviginti Latin · revision 34683

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la duo, la dē, la vīgintī}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [du.ɔ.deː.wiːˈɡɪn.tiː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [du.o.de.viˈd͡ʒin.ti]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''duodēvīgintī''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|duo|t=two]], [[m|la|dē|t=from]] and [[m|la|vīgintī|t=twenty]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) that is, “two from twenty”.^(Wiktionary) Paulus' epitome of Festus says that the Romans took this way of counting from the Greeks.^(TLL)

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+ The word for twenty goes back to [[itc-pro|*wīkentī]] and [[ine-pro|*dui-dḱmt-ih1|t=twenty]], originally a dual form.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) meaning “eighteen”, in the ''Poenulus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero and Caesar use it,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Eutropius splits it as ''duobus dē vīgintī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Eighteen is also expressed by ''decem et octo'', in Livy, Vitruvius, Pliny and many later prose writers, and in inscriptions; the forms ''decem octo'' and ''octo et decem'' also occur.^(TLL) In Ecclesiastical Latin it is still the word for eighteen.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the ''Poenulus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it in the ''Gallic War''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 370 AD – Eutropius writes it as ''duobus dē vīgintī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # [[m|en|eighteen|alt=Eighteen]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ūndēvīgintī]]

+ * [[octōdecim]]

+ * [[vīgintī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}