huitante

See also: huiptante, huitanté, and huitantè

French

**French numbers ^(edit)**
		800^{[a], [b]}
^{[a], [b]} ← 70	^{[a], [b]} ← 79	80	81 → ^{[a], [b], [c], [d], [e]}	90 → ^{[a], [b]}
		8
Cardinal (decimal): huitante, octante Cardinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingts Ordinal (decimal): huitantième, octantième Ordinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingtième Ordinal abbreviation: 80e, (now nonstandard) 80ème
French Wikipedia article on 80

Inherited 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.

huitante (invariable)

(obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg[1] in Switzerland and other dialects: Acadia) eighty
Synonyms: (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura[1]) quatre-vingts, octante

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

André Thibault, Pierre Knecht, Dictionnaire suisse romand: Particularités lexicales du français contemporain [Swiss French dictionary: Linguistic particularities of modern French], 2004 (Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland: Éditions Zoé, 1997), p. 457