Latin

Wide variety in Latin keeps their brands up to ten, except 0. 0 as the a number is lead following the slide off Rome, probably additional because of the Vatican’s individual Latinist along with terms such polybenum, machine-gun. 0 could have been notated sometimes because the nihil (nothing) otherwise nullus (none). For this that, let’s use nullus.

Today that is where it becomes a small trendy, because the brands to have fifteen and you can 20 (DEC11 and you may DEC12) is each other depending off DEC10, are undecim and you may duodecim. Since this seximal system is much less quantitative-centric, I do believe it might be wiser to ensure they are so much more six based: bis sex (double six) getting 20 and you may unde bis intercourse (you to definitely off regarding twice half a dozen) to have 15. not, a keen adverb having “because of the twelves” can be acquired, bisen. I find they way less clunky and a lot more simpler to have quantity regarding dozen one dozen five if we fool around with undebisen and you may bisen for fifteen and you may 20, respectively. (more…)