numeral
ūndēvīgintī
ūndēvīgintī (indeclinable)
Classical[uːn.deː.wiːˈɡɪn.tiː]Ecclesiastical[un.de.viˈd͡ʒin.ti]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- indeclinablenineteen; 19
Annos undeviginti natus exercitum privato consilio et privata impensa comparavi
"At the age of nineteen I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense"c. 14 C.E., Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, "Res gestae Divi Augusti", 1.1Intervalla quoque siderum a terra multi indagare temptarunt, et solem abesse a luna undeviginti partes quantam lunam ipsam a terra prodiderunt.
Many persons have attempted to discover the distance of the stars from the earth, and they have published as the result, that the sun is nineteen times as far from the moon, as the moon herself is from the earth.77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 2.83
undēvīginti, num. adj. unus-de-viginti,
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ūndēvīgintī num.
unus+de+viginti, nineteen : anni: signa militaria, L.
Origins
Literally "one from twenty"; from ūnus (“one”) + dē (“from”) vīgintī (“twenty”). Compare non-subtractive forms novendecim and novemdecim.