numeral
ūndeoctōgintā
ūndeoctōgintā (indeclinable)
Classical[uːn.de.ɔk.toːˈɡɪn.taː]Ecclesiastical[un.de.ok.toˈd͡ʒin.ta]
Meaning
- indeclinableseventy-nine; 79
undĕoctōginta, num. adj. unus-deoctoginta,
I. seventy-nine:
unde-Octoginta annos natus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 118.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ūndeoctōgintā or LXXVIIII num.
unus +de+octoginta, seventy-nine : unde-octoginta annos natus, H.: argenti bigati LXXVIIII, L.
Origins
Literally "one from eighty"; ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) + octōgintā (“eighty”)