novemdecim

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 18	XIX 19	20 →
Cardinal: ūndēvīgintī, novemdecim, novendecim Ordinal: ūndēvīcēsimus, novemdecimus, novendecimus

From novem (“nine”) + decem (“ten”).

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈven.de.t͡ʃim/, [noˈvɛn̪d̪et͡ʃim]

novemdecim (indeclinable)

(rare) nineteen; 19
- 1714, Demetrius Cantemir, Descriptio Moldaviae, caput IV
  Posteaquam vero sequentibus temporibus Turcarum tyrannide oppressa esset Bassarabia Aronis principis perfidia tradita Tigine cum duabus partibus, novemdecim tantum regiones, neque hae integrae, hodiernis principibus remanserunt.
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This form is rare, and is found primarily in bookish post-Classical Latin. The usual word for nineteen in Classical Latin is ūndēvīgintī.

“novemdecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
novemdecim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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