Daily AncestorLatin numbers
Latin numbers run unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem (one to ten), with viginti 20, centum 100 and mille 1000.
Latin records write counts in words such as viginti (20), triginta (30), centum (100) and mille (1000). Teens are built on decem: undecim (11), duodecim (12). Some numbers count down: duodeviginti is 18, two from twenty, and undeviginti is 19.
Scribes also used Roman numerals, written large or small, and Arabic digits. When a number is written as a word, it may be a count, such as an age; dates use ordinal numbers instead.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, age of the deceased, 1800s
aetatis suae septuaginta duorum annorum
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