undeoctoginta

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
← 78	LXXIX 79	80 → ^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal: ūndeoctōgintā

Alternative forms

Symbol: LXXIX

Etymology

Literally "one from eighty"; ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) + octōgintā (“eighty”)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /uːn.de.ok.toːˈɡin.taː/, [uːn̪d̪eɔkt̪oːˈɡɪn̪t̪äː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /un.de.ok.toˈd͡ʒin.ta/, [un̪d̪eokt̪oˈd͡ʒin̪t̪ä]

Numeral

ūndeoctōgintā (indeclinable)

seventy-nine; 79

Usage notes

Although ūndeoctōgintā is the usual expression for 79, it is also possible to say septuāgintā novem (“seventy-nine”) or novem et septuāgintā (“nine and seventy”).

Related terms

References

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

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