- for 99. A
possible explanation is that the word for 18 in
Latin is
duodeviginti— literally "two from twenty"— while 98 is
duodecentum (two from hundred)...
- 700 DCC septingentī, septingentae,
septingenta 8 VIII octō 18
XVIII duodēvīgintī 80 L**** octōgintā 800 DCCC octingentī, octingentae,
octingenta 9 IX novem...
- did the same for 18 and 19,
matching the way they said
those numbers:
duodeviginti and undeviginti. This
habit has been
attributed to
Etruscan influence...
- 18 and 19 are
formed by
subtracting 2 and 1, respectively, from 20:
duodēvīgintī and ūndēvīgintī. For the
numbers 21 to 27, the
digits either follow or...
- duodecim, ... , septendecim), but then
switches to "two-off-twenty" (
duodēvigintī) and "one-off-twenty" (ūndēvigintī). For the sake of comparison, note...
-
practice -
despite them
being in existence. Instead, in
classic Latin, 18 =
duodēvīgintī ("two
taken from twenty"), (IIXX or XIIX), 19 = ūndēvīgintī ("one taken...
