undecentumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Symbol: XCIX

語源

Literally "one from one hundred"; ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) + centum (“hundred”)

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːn.deːˈken.tum/, [uːn̪.d̪eːˈkɛn̪.t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /un.deˈt͡ʃen.tum/, [un̪.d̪ɛˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪um]

数詞

ūndēcentum (indeclinable)

1. ninety-nine; 99
   • 77-78 — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book VII, section 214

     nec congruēbant ad hōrās eius līneae, pāruērunt tamen eī annīs ūndēcentum, ...

     Although the threads did not come together for those hours, they were evident those ninety-nine years, ...

使用する際の注意点

Alternative form to nōnāgintā novem (“ninety-nine”) and novem et nōnāgintā (“nine かつ ninety”). The only Classical attestation is from Pliny the Elder.

関連する語

• centum

参考

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

参照

• undecentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• undecentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette