Daily Ancestormilleottocento
Milleottocento is Italian for "one thousand eight hundred" (1800); acts spell the year as one word, as milleottocentosessanta for 1860.
Mille is one thousand and ottocento eight hundred. Italian writes number words joined together, so a year is one long word: milleottocentocinquantasette is 1857. Break it into parts from the front: mille, ottocento, cinquanta (fifty), sette (seven).
Days of the month are usually written as cardinal numbers too, as addì undici, on the eleventh. Watch for tre (3) and trenta (30), sei (6) and sessanta (60), sette (7) and settanta (70), which look alike in a long word.
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