Mox erō duodētrīgintā annōs nātus. │ I will soon be 28 years old.
Est [diēs] duodētrīcēsimus mēnsis
Maiī. │ It’s the 28th (day) of May.
Numbers have been covered in
detail in many previous posts and so I’m just going to say a little about them
and give some links.
There are three key areas.
Latin has different types of
numbers, but the two which, by far, matter the most are:
[1] cardinal numbers
(1, 2, 3 etc.) and [2] ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)
Links to main posts on
numbers in the group:
26.02.24: cardinal numbers 1
– 10
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/04/26_4.html
28.02.24: cardinal numbers
11-20
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/04/lying-about-your-age-numbers-11-20-step.html
19.03.24: cardinal numbers
20-100
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/04/190324-more-on-numbers-20-100-how-to.html
21.03.24: ordinal numbers
1st – 10th
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/04/220324-video-ordinal-numbers.html
22.03.24: ordinal numbers
1st – 10th
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/04/220324-ordinal-numbers-2-telling-time.html
09.04.24: ordinal numbers
11th – 31st
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/090424-more-on-ordinal-numbers-11th-31st.html
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/090424-practice-with-ordinal-numbers.html
https://adckl.blogspot.com/2024/05/090424-practice-with-ordinal-numbers-2.html
[2] Image #1: in terms of
reading Latin, you also need to know the Roman numerical symbols and the way in
which those numerical symbols are put together:
I, V, X, L, C, D, M
When you’re reading in Latin
sometimes the editor will use full Latin numbers and sometimes Roman numerals.
[3] Further links:
1. Latin tutorial; Numbers
in Latin
2. Latin tutorial; Roman
Numerals
3.
https://dcc.dickinson.edu/.../cardinal-and-ordinal-numbers
4.
https://en.wiktionary.org/.../Appendix:Latin_cardinal...
[4] Like English or other
languages, you can be dealing with [i] a single number or [ii] a compound
number i.e. comprising two or more other numbers
quīnque: five
ūndecim: eleven
vīgintī ūnus: twenty-one
With the compound numbers,
variations can occur. Dickinson (link given) shows an example of that:
21: vīgintī ūnus; ūnus (et)
vīgintī i.e. the same as English twenty-one or German ein¦und¦zwanzig
[5] Image #2: note the
unusual feature of 18 and 19
18: duodēvīgintī;
duo¦dē¦vīgintī i.e. two from twenty
19: ūndēvīgintī;
ūn¦dē¦vīgintī i.e. one from twenty
And that applies to all the
compounds ending in 8 or 9; this is what Vincent uses in the video:
- Mox erō duodētrīgintā annōs nātus. │ I will soon be 28 years old.
duo¦dē¦trīgintā i.e. two
from thirty
- Est [diēs] duodētrīcēsimus mēnsis Maiī. │ It’s the 28th (day) of (the month of) May.
duo¦dē¦trīcēsimus i.e. two
from the thirtieth
[6] Image #3: all the
cardinal numbers from 1- 1000
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