ducenti

Latin
Latin numbers (edit)
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200		 300  → [a], [b]
20
    Cardinal: ducentī
    Ordinal: ducentēsimus
    Distributive: ducēnus

Etymology 1

From duo (“two”) + centum (“hundred”).

Alternative forms
  • Symbol: CC

Pronunciation

Numeral

ducentī (feminine ducentae, neuter ducenta); first/second-declension numeral, plural only

  1. two hundred; 200
Usage notes

Used as a plural adjective. For more information see Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective, plural only.

Number Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ducentī ducentae ducenta
Genitive ducentōrum ducentārum ducentōrum
Dative ducentīs
Accusative ducentōs ducentās ducenta
Ablative ducentīs
Vocative ducentī ducentae ducenta
Descendants
  • Direct reflexes:
    • Friulian: duzinte
    • Italian: dugento (regional)
    • Old Catalan: doents
    • Old Spanish: dozientos
    • Portuguese: duzentos
    • Sardinian: duchentos (Nuorese), dughentos (Logudorese), duxentus (Campidanese)
  • Later formations ('two' + 'hundred'):
  • Borrowings:
See also
  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dūcēns, which is a participle of dūcō.

Participle

dūcentī

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of dūcēns

References
  • “ducenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ducenti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “ducenti”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 214
  • duecènto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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