Interlingua

Numeral

viginti

1. twenty

Synonyms

• vinti

Latin

Alternative forms

• Symbol: XX

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁wih₁ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti(h₁) ‎(“two tens, two decades”), *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti. Cognates include Sanskrit विंशति ‎(viṃśati), Ancient Greek εἴκοσι ‎(eíkosi), Old Irish fiche, Welsh ugain, Breton ugent, and Tocharian A wiki.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wiːˈɡin.tiː/, [wiːˈɡɪn.tiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈd͡ʒin.ti/

Numeral

vīgintī ‎(indeclinable)

1. (cardinal) twenty; 20

   Habet annos viginti.

   He is twenty years old.

   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Actus Apostolorum 27:28

     qui submittentes invenerunt passus viginti et pusillum inde separati invenerunt passus quindecim

     "And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms."

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

References

• viginti in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viginti in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “viginti”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • it is more than twenty years ago: amplius sunt (quam) viginti anni or viginti annis
    
  • twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
    
  • twenty years ago: abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annis
    
  • to be not yet twenty: minorem esse viginti annis