Numbers have two forms

  • cardinal, which indicate the quantity of something
    • sixty-seven dollars
  • ordinal, which indicate the order of things
    • the sixty-seventh dollar

Numbers are mostly adjectives. Sometimes they are used as nouns (most often mille and primus).

No source has said this, but I'm assuming that for compounds, each part does its own thing in declination (like the quid and dam in quidam).

Cardinal

Most cardinals are undeclined.

unus

unus is declined like a 1/2dec -ius adjective.

MFNM PLF PLN PL
nomunusunaunumuniunaeuna
accunumunamunumunosunasuna
genuniusuniusuniusuniunaeuni
datuniuniuniunisunisunis
ablunounaunounisunisunis

The plural is necessary because:

  • unus also means same or only
  • to agree with plural only nouns of a singular meaning
    • una balena? one bathhouse?

duo

duo is PL only and irregular.

M PLF PLN PL
nomduoduaeduo
accduos | duoduasduo
genduorumduarumduorum
datduobusduabusduobus
ablduobusduabusduobus

tres

tres is PL only and declined like a 3rd declension i-stem adjective. it's two-termination.

M/F PLN PL
nomtrestria
acctres | tristria
gentriumtrium
dattribustribus
abltribustribus

hundreds

200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, are declined like first declension plural only adjectives.

mille

mille is singular only. The plural meaning is supplied by the NT PL noun mīlia, mīlium, plus the genitive of whatever thing you're describing.

  • mille homines
  • mille hominum (with mille as a noun)
  • duo milia hominum
  • cum duobus milibus hominum (note how octo is a numerical adjective that describes milibus - we have come full circle)

milia, milium is also found with a double L (millia, millium)

(n mod 10) = (8 or 9)

?? (I copy and pasted this)

The forms octōdecim, novendecim are rare, duodēvīgintī (two from twenty), ūndēvīgintī (one from twenty), being used instead. So 28, 29; 38, 39; etc. may be expressed either by the subtraction of two and one or by the addition of eight and nine respectively.

  • how would you express subtraction????
  • et is addition

Ordinal

Everything is declined like first declension adjectives. Example:

  • secundus, secunda, secundum
  • alter, altera, alterum

Ordinals ending in -ēnsimus are often written without n

  • vīcēnsimus → vīcēsimus

Reference Sheet

decimalhexbinaryCARDINALORDINALROMAN NUMERALS
111ūnusprīmusI
2210duosecundus | alterII
3311trēstertiusIII
44100quattuorquārtusIIII or IV
55101quīnquequīntusV
66110sexsextusVI
77111septemseptimusVII
881000octōoctāvusVIII
991001novemnōnusVIIII or IX
10A1010decemdecimusX
11B1011ūndecimūndecimusXI
12C1100duodecimduodecimusXII
13D1101tredecim;
decem (et) trēs
tertius decimus;
decimus (et) tertius
XIII
14E1110quattuordecimquārtus decimusXIIII or XIV
15F1111quīndecimquīntus decimusXV
16101,0000sēdecimsextus decimusXVI
17111,0001septendecimseptimus decimusXVII
18121,0010duodēvīgintī;
octōdecim
duodēvīcēnsimus;
octāvus decimus
XVIII
19131,0011ūndēvīgintī;
novendecim
ūndēvīcēnsimus;
nōnus decimus
XVIIII or XIX
20141,0100vīgintīvīcēnsimus;
vīgēnsimus
XX
21151,0101vīgintī ūnus;
ūnus (et) vīgintī
vīcēnsimus prīmus;
ūnus (et) vīcēnsimus
XXI
301E1,1110trīgintātrīcēnsimusXXX
402810,1000quadrāgintāquadrāgēnsimusXXXX or XL
503211,0010quīnquāgintāquīnquāgēnsimus↓ or L
603C11,1100sexāgintāsexāgēnsimusLX
7046100,0110septuāgintāseptuāgēnsimusLXX
8050101,0000octōgintāoctōgēnsimusLXXX
905A101,1010nōnāgintānōnāgēnsimusLXXXX or XC
10064110,0100centumcentēnsimusC
10165110,0101centum (et) ūnuscentēnsimus prīmusCI
200C81000,1000ducentīducentēnsimusCC
30012C1,0010,1100trecentītrecentēnsimusCCC
4001901,1001,0000quadringentīquadringentēnsimusCCCC
5001F41,1111,0100quīngentīquīngentēnsimusD
60025810,0101,1000sescentīsescentēnsimusDC
7002BCseptingentīseptingentēnsimusDCC
800octingentīoctingentēnsimusDCCC
900nōngentīnōngentēnsimusDCCCC
1000mīllemīllēnsimus∞ (CIϽ) or M
5000quīnque mīliaquīnquiēns mīllēnsimusIϽϽ
10,0003E8decem mīliadeciēns mīllēnsimusCCIϽϽ
100,000centum mīliacentiēns mīllēnsimusCCCIϽϽϽ

references

https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/declension-cardinals-and-ordinals