vīgintī

Meaning

1. indeclinabletwenty (20)
   Habet annōs vīgintī.He is twenty years old.
   qui submittentes invenerunt passus viginti et pusillum inde separati invenerunt passus quindecimAnd sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Actuum Apostolorum 27:28, page 1745, column 1:

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

minorem esse viginti annis

to be not yet twenty.

viginti anni et amplius, aut plus

twenty years and more.

abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annis

twenty years ago.

amplius sunt (quam) viginti anni or viginti annis

it is more than twenty years ago.

Origins

Inherited from Proto-Italic *wīkəntī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wi-(h₁)-ḱm̥t-ih₁, from *dwi-(h₁)-dḱm̥t-ih₁, *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (“two tens, two decades”). See also vīcēsimus and vīciēs. Cognate with Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśatí), Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Old Irish fiche, Welsh ugain, Breton ugent, Tocharian A wiki.

In English words that came into English from vīgintī

• vigesimalvīgēsimus
• vicenaryvīcēnārius
• ventilevinti
• vigintilevīgintī
• vigenaryvīgēnus
• vicenarianvīcēnārius