English

Noun

cardinal numeral ‎(plural cardinal numerals)

1. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number.
   • 1678 — Edward Phillips, The new world of English words: or, a new general dictionary, (first ed. 1658)

     Cardinal numerals, are those which express the number of things.

   • 1872 — Richard Morris, Historical outlines of English accidence, p.110

     Numbers may be considered under their divisions — Cardinal, Ordinal, and Indefinite Numerals.

   • 1993 — William W. Derbyshire, A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc.), p.56

     The cardinal numeral ‘one’ occurs in the singular and is declined like bogàt.

   • 2002 — Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, "Lexical word-formation", p1621-1722 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p1716

     Numerals cut across the division between syntax and morphology: cardinal numerals expressing numbers below 100 are single words, while those expressing higher numbers are syntactically composite.

   • 2005 — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (New York: Harper Resources, 2005), p.97

     In Latin most cardinal numerals through 100 are indeclinable adjectives.

Related terms

• ordinal numeral

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See also

• cardinal
• cardinal number