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.
| M | F | N | M PL | F PL | N PL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nom | unus | una | unum | uni | unae | una |
| acc | unum | unam | unum | unos | unas | una |
| gen | unius | unius | unius | uni | unae | uni |
| dat | uni | uni | uni | unis | unis | unis |
| abl | uno | una | uno | unis | unis | unis |
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 PL | F PL | N PL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nom | duo | duae | duo |
| acc | duos | duo | duas | duo |
| gen | duorum | duarum | duorum |
| dat | duobus | duabus | duobus |
| abl | duobus | duabus | duobus |
tres
tres is PL only and declined like a 3rd declension i-stem adjective. it's two-termination.
| M/F PL | N PL | |
|---|---|---|
| nom | tres | tria |
| acc | tres | tris | tria |
| gen | trium | trium |
| dat | tribus | tribus |
| abl | tribus | tribus |
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
| decimal | hex | binary | CARDINAL | ORDINAL | ROMAN NUMERALS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | ūnus | prīmus | I |
| 2 | 2 | 10 | duo | secundus | alter | II |
| 3 | 3 | 11 | trēs | tertius | III |
| 4 | 4 | 100 | quattuor | quārtus | IIII or IV |
| 5 | 5 | 101 | quīnque | quīntus | V |
| 6 | 6 | 110 | sex | sextus | VI |
| 7 | 7 | 111 | septem | septimus | VII |
| 8 | 8 | 1000 | octō | octāvus | VIII |
| 9 | 9 | 1001 | novem | nōnus | VIIII or IX |
| 10 | A | 1010 | decem | decimus | X |
| 11 | B | 1011 | ūndecim | ūndecimus | XI |
| 12 | C | 1100 | duodecim | duodecimus | XII |
| 13 | D | 1101 | tredecim; decem (et) trēs | tertius decimus; decimus (et) tertius | XIII |
| 14 | E | 1110 | quattuordecim | quārtus decimus | XIIII or XIV |
| 15 | F | 1111 | quīndecim | quīntus decimus | XV |
| 16 | 10 | 1,0000 | sēdecim | sextus decimus | XVI |
| 17 | 11 | 1,0001 | septendecim | septimus decimus | XVII |
| 18 | 12 | 1,0010 | duodēvīgintī; octōdecim | duodēvīcēnsimus; octāvus decimus | XVIII |
| 19 | 13 | 1,0011 | ūndēvīgintī; novendecim | ūndēvīcēnsimus; nōnus decimus | XVIIII or XIX |
| 20 | 14 | 1,0100 | vīgintī | vīcēnsimus; vīgēnsimus | XX |
| 21 | 15 | 1,0101 | vīgintī ūnus; ūnus (et) vīgintī | vīcēnsimus prīmus; ūnus (et) vīcēnsimus | XXI |
| 30 | 1E | 1,1110 | trīgintā | trīcēnsimus | XXX |
| 40 | 28 | 10,1000 | quadrāgintā | quadrāgēnsimus | XXXX or XL |
| 50 | 32 | 11,0010 | quīnquāgintā | quīnquāgēnsimus | ↓ or L |
| 60 | 3C | 11,1100 | sexāgintā | sexāgēnsimus | LX |
| 70 | 46 | 100,0110 | septuāgintā | septuāgēnsimus | LXX |
| 80 | 50 | 101,0000 | octōgintā | octōgēnsimus | LXXX |
| 90 | 5A | 101,1010 | nōnāgintā | nōnāgēnsimus | LXXXX or XC |
| 100 | 64 | 110,0100 | centum | centēnsimus | C |
| 101 | 65 | 110,0101 | centum (et) ūnus | centēnsimus prīmus | CI |
| 200 | C8 | 1000,1000 | ducentī | ducentēnsimus | CC |
| 300 | 12C | 1,0010,1100 | trecentī | trecentēnsimus | CCC |
| 400 | 190 | 1,1001,0000 | quadringentī | quadringentēnsimus | CCCC |
| 500 | 1F4 | 1,1111,0100 | quīngentī | quīngentēnsimus | D |
| 600 | 258 | 10,0101,1000 | sescentī | sescentēnsimus | DC |
| 700 | 2BC | septingentī | septingentēnsimus | DCC | |
| 800 | octingentī | octingentēnsimus | DCCC | ||
| 900 | nōngentī | nōngentēnsimus | DCCCC | ||
| 1000 | mīlle | mīllēnsimus | ∞ (CIϽ) or M | ||
| 5000 | quīnque mīlia | quīnquiēns mīllēnsimus | IϽϽ | ||
| 10,000 | 3E8 | decem mīlia | deciēns mīllēnsimus | CCIϽϽ | |
| 100,000 | centum mīlia | centiēns mīllēnsimus | CCCIϽϽϽ |
references
https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/declension-cardinals-and-ordinals