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Numeral prefix

Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example:

In many European languages there are two principal systems, taken from Latin and Greek, each with several subsystems; in addition, Sanskrit occupies a marginal position.[B] There is also an international set of metric prefixes, which are used in the world's standard measurement system.

Table of number prefixes in English edit

In the following prefixes, a final vowel is normally dropped before a root that begins with a vowel, with the exceptions of bi-, which is extended to bis- before a vowel; among the other monosyllables, du-, di-, dvi-, and tri-, never vary.

Words in the cardinal catgegory are cardinal numbers, such as the English one, two, three, which name the count of items in a sequence. The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like the English once, twice, thrice, that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items. Enumeration with the distributive catgegory originally was meant to specify one each, two each or one by one, two by two, etc., giving how many items of each type are desired or had been found, although distinct word forms for that meaning are now mostly lost. The ordinal catgegory are based on ordinal numbers such as the English first, second, third, which specify position of items in a sequence. In Latin and Greek, the ordinal forms are also used for fractions for amounts higher than 2; only the fraction  1 / 2 has special forms.

The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, take for example the following:

Ordinal
numbers
primary secondary tertiary quartary
[citation needed]
quintary sextary septimary octavary nonary decimary
Distributive
numbers
singulary
[citation needed]
binary ternary,
trinary
quaternary quinary senary septenary octonary novenary denary

For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent-, from the original Latin, and those in -cent-, derived from centi-, etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .

Many of the items in the following tables are not in general use, but may rather be regarded as coinages by individuals. In scientific contexts, either scientific notation or SI prefixes are used to express very large or very small numbers, and not unwieldy prefixes.

Number prefixes in English
Number Latin
derived
Greek[C]
derived
Sanskrit[B]
Cardinal Multiple Distributive Ordinal Cardinal Multiple,
proportional, or
quantitative
Ordinal
0 nulli- nullesim- miden-, ouden-
medeproto-, oudeproto- shūnya-
1/ 12  unci-[1]
Greek uses ordinals to name fractions; (i.e. dodecato-)
 1 / 8 octant-
As above; ogdoö–
 1 / 6 sextant-
As above; hecto
 1 / 5 quintant-
As above; pempto–
 1 / 4 quadrant-
As above; tetarto–
 1 / 3 trient-
As above; trito–
 1 / 2 semi-
demi-[D]
hemi- ("half")[a]
 3 / 4 dodrant-
1 uni-[b]
sol-[E][c]
sim-[F] singul- prim- mono- ("one", "alone")[d]
holo- ("entire", "full")[e]
hen-[G] rare
mono- ("one, alone")
hapax- ("once")
haplo-[G] ("single")
monad- ("one of a kind", "unique", "unit")
prot-[2][f]
protaio- ("[every] first day")
eka-[3]
1 + 1 / 4
quasqui-[g]
1 + 1 / 2
sesqui-[h]
2 du- bi-, bis-[i] bin- second- di-, dy-,[4] duo-, dyo- dis-[5] ("twice") common
dyakis- ("twice") rare
diplo- ("double")
dyad- ("two of a
kind
")
deuter-[6][j]
deuteraio- ("[every] second day")
dvi-[7]
2 + 1 / 2
semiquin-[k]
3 tri-[l] ter- tern-, trin- terti- tri-[m] tris-[8] ("thrice") common
triakis- ("thrice") rare
triplo- ("triple")
triad- ("three of a kind")
trit-[9] ("third")[n]
tritaio- ("[every] third day")
tri-[10]
4 quadri-, quadru-[H] quater-[12] quatern-[13] quart-[14] tetra-, tessara- tetrakis- ("four times")
tetraplo- ("quadruple")
tetrad- ("four of a kind")[o]
tetarto- ("fourth")
tetartaio-
("[every] fourth day")
catur-[15]
5 quinque-[16]
quin-[17] quint-[18] penta- pentakis-
pentaplo-
pentad-[p]
pempt-[19]
pemptaio-
pañca-[20]
6 sexa-[I]
sen-[21] sext-[22] hexa-[23] hexakis-
hexaplo-
hexad-[q]
hect-[24]
hectaio-
ṣaṭ-[25]
7 septem-, septi-[r] septen-[26] septim- hepta-[27][s] heptakis-
heptaplo-
heptad-
hebdomo- ("seventh")
hebdomaio- ("seventh day")[t]
sapta-[28]
8 octo-[u]
octon-[29] octav-[30] octo-[v] octakis-
octaplo-
octad-[w]
ogdoö-
ogdoaio-
aṣṭa-
9 novem-[x] noven- nona- ennea-[31] enneakis-
enneaplo-
ennead-
enat-[32]
enataio-
nava-
10 decem-, dec-[y] den-[33] decim-[34] deca-[35][z] decakis-
decaplo-
decad-
decat-[36]
decataio-
dasha-
11 undec- unden-[37] undecim-[38] hendeca-[39] hendeca/kis/plo/d- hendecat-[40]/o/aio- ekadasha-
12 duodec- duoden-[aa] duodecim- dodeca-[41][ab] dodeca/kis/plo/d- dodecat-[42]/o/aio- dvadasha-
13 tredec- treden- tredecim- tria(kai)deca-, decatria-[ac] tris(kai)decakis-,
decatria/kis/plo/d-
decatotrito-
etc.
trayodasha-
14 quattuordec- quattuorden- quattuordecim-
quartadecim-
tessara(kai)deca-, decatettara-, decatessara- tetra(kai)decakis-,
decatetra/kis/plo/d-[ad]
decatotetarto- chaturdasha-
15 quinquadec-, quindec-[43] quinden-[44] quindecim-[45]
quintadecim-
pente(kai)deca-, decapente- penta(kai)decakis-,
decapentakis- etc.
decatopempto- panchadasha-
16 sedec-,[46] sexdec-

(but hybrid hexadecimal)

seden- sedecim-
sextadecim-
hexa(kai)deca-,
hekkaideca-,
decahex-
hexa(kai)decakis-,
decahexakis- etc.
decatohecto- shodasha-
17 septendec- septenden- septendecim-
septimadecim-
hepta(kai)deca-,
decahepta-
hepta(kai)decakis-,
decaheptakis- etc.
decatohebdomo- saptadasha-
18 octodec- octoden- octodecim-
duodevicesim-
octo(kai)deca-,
decaocto-
octa(kai)decakis-,
decaoctakis- etc.
decatoogdoö- ashtadasha-
19 novemdec-, novendec-
undeviginti-
novemden-
novenden-
novemdecim-
novendecim-
undevisim-
ennea(kai)deca-, decaennea- ennea(kai)decakis-,
decaenneakis- etc.
decatoenato- navadasha-
20[J] viginti- vicen-, vigen- vigesim- (e)icosi- eicosa/kis/plo/d-[ae] eicosto- vimshati-
22 duovigint- (e)icosidyo-, dyo(e)icosi- rare[af] (e)icosidyakis-
(e)icosidiplo-
(e)icosidyad-
eicostodeutero-
24 quattuorvigint- (e)icositettara-, (e)icosikaitettara-
rare
(e)icositetrakis-
(e)icositetraplo-
(e)icositetrad-[ag]
eicostotetarto- chaturvimshati-
25 quinvigint- (e)icosipente-[ah] (e)icosipentakis-
(e)icosipentaplo-
(e)icosipentad-
eicostopempto-
30 triginti- tricen- trigesim- triaconta- triacontakis- etc.[ai] triacosto- trimshat-
31 untriginti- triacontahen- triacontahenakis-
triacontahenaplo-
triacontahenad-
triacostoproto-
triacostoprotaio-
40 quadraginti- quadragen- quadragesim- tettaraconta-,
tessaraconta-
tettaracontakis-,
tessaracontakis- etc.
tessaracosto- chatvarimshat-
50 quinquaginti-[47] quinquagen-[48] quinquagesim-[49] penteconta-[aj] pentecontakis- etc. pentecosto-[ak] panchashat-
60 sexaginti- sexagen- sexagesim- hexeconta- hexecontakis- etc. hexecosto- shasti-
70 septuaginti-[al] septuagen- septuagesim-[50] hebdomeconta- hebdomecontakis- etc. hebdomecosto- saptati-
80 octogint- octogen- octogesim- ogdoëconta- ogdoëcontakis- etc. ogdoëcosto- ashiti-
90 nonagint- nonagen- nonagesim- eneneconta- enenecontakis- etc. enenecosto- navati-
100 centi- centen- centesim- hecato(n)- hecatontakis-
hundred times
hecatontaplo-
hundred-multiple
hecatontad-
hundred of a kind
also abbreviated in
hec[aton]tad-
hecatosto-
hundredth
hecatostaio-
the hundredth day
shata–
120 viginticenti-
hecaton(e)icosi- hecaton(e)icosakis- etc. hecatostoeicosto-
150
sesquicenten-[am]
200 ducenti- ducen-, bicenten- ducentesim- diacosia- diacosakis- etc. diacosiosto-
250
semiquincenten-[an]
300 trecenti- trecen-, tercenten-, tricenten- trecentesim- triacosia- etc. triacosakis-
triacosaplo-
triacosad-
triacosiosto-
400 quadringenti- quadringen-, quatercenten-, quadricenten- quadringentesim- tetracosia- tetracosakis- etc. tetracosiosto-
500 quingent-,[51] quincent-[52] quingen-,[53] quingenten-, quincenten- quingentesim-[54] pentacosia- pentacosakis- etc. pentacosiosto-
600 sescenti-, sexcenti- sescen-, sexcenten- sescentesim- hexacosia- hexacosakis- etc. hexacosiosto-
700 septingenti- septingen-, septingenten-, septcenten- septingentesim- heptacosia- heptacosakis- etc. heptacosiosto-
800 octingenti- octingen-, octingenten-, octocenten- octingentesim- octacosia- octacosakis- etc. octacosiosto-
900 nongenti- nongen- nongentesim- ennacosi-[55]
derived from
en(n)iacosia-,
a pejoration of
enneacosia-
enneacosakis- etc. enacosiost-,[56]
alt. spelling
en(n)iacosiost(o)-
a pejoration of
enneacosiosto-
1000 milli- millen- millesim- khili-,[57] kilo- khiliakis-
khiliaplo-
chiliad-
chiliost-[58] sahasra–
2000 duomilli
diskhili-[59] diskhiliakis- etc. diskhiliosto-
3000 tremilli- triskhili-[60]
triskhiliost-[61]
5000 quinmilli– pentaciskhili-[62]
10000 decamilli– myria-,[63][ao] decakiskhilia- myriakis-
myriaplo-
myriad-
decakiskhiliakis- etc.
myriast-,[64]
decakiskhiliosto-
ayuta–
80000 octogintmilli– octacismyri-[65]
100000
or
105
centimilli– decakismyria-, hecatontakiskhilia- decakismyriakis-,
hecatontakiskhiliakis-
etc. laksha–
1000000
or
106
hecatommyria-
(see also mega-)
hecatommyriakis-
("a million times")
hecatommyriaplo-
(million-multiple)
hecatommyriad-
(a million of a kind)
hecatommyriosto-
(ranked millionth;
also one piece of
a million [fraction] see above in
fractions)

hecatommyriostaio-
("the millionth day")
infini-
apeiro-
Few pauci-[ap]
oligo-[aq]
Many
(more than 1)
multi-, pluri-[ar]
poly-[as] pollakis- (many times)
pollaplo- (multiple)
plethos- (many of a kind)[at]
pollosto-
(rank/order of many [manieth])
bahut–
Examples
  1. ^ e.g. hemisphere
  2. ^ e.g. universe, unilateral
  3. ^ e.g. solo, soliloquy
  4. ^ e.g. monogamy
  5. ^ e.g. holocaust, holography
  6. ^ e.g. proton, protozoa
  7. ^ e.g. quasquicentennial
  8. ^ e.g. sesquicentennial, sesquipedalian
  9. ^ e.g. bireme, bilingual, bipolar, bipartisan
  10. ^ e.g. Deuteron/ium, Deuteronomy
  11. ^ e.g. semiquincentennial
  12. ^ e.g. trireme
  13. ^ e.g. triathlon, Tripolis
  14. ^ e.g. Triton/ium
  15. ^ e.g. tetrahedron
  16. ^ e.g. pentahedron
  17. ^ e.g. hexahedron
  18. ^ e.g. September
  19. ^ e.g. heptathlon
  20. ^ e.g. hebdomas
  21. ^ e.g. October
  22. ^ e.g. octopus
  23. ^ e.g. octahedron
  24. ^ e.g. November
  25. ^ e.g. December
  26. ^ e.g. decathlon, decahedron, decagon
  27. ^ e.g. duodenum
  28. ^ e.g. dodecahedron
  29. ^ e.g. triskaidekaphobia
  30. ^ e.g. tetradecahedron/
    decatetrahedron
  31. ^ e.g. (e)icosahedron
  32. ^ e.g. docosa-hexaenoic acid (a pejoration of dyoicosa-hexanoic)
  33. ^ e.g. (e)icositetragon
  34. ^ e.g. eicosapenta-enoic acid
  35. ^ e.g. triacontahedron
  36. ^ e.g. penteconter
  37. ^ e.g. pentecost
  38. ^ e.g. Septuagint
  39. ^ e.g. sesquicentennial
  40. ^ e.g. semiquincentennial
  41. ^ e.g. myriapoda
  42. ^ e.g. pauciparous
  43. ^ e.g. oligopoly, oligarchy, oligomer, oligonucleotide, oligopeptide, oligosaccharide
  44. ^ e.g. multilingual, multiple, pluripotent, pluricentric
  45. ^ e.g. polyhedra, polygamy, polypod, polyglot, polymath, polymer
  46. ^ e.g. plethora

Occurrences edit

  • Numerical prefixes occur in 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century coinages, mainly the terms that are used in relation to or that are the names of technological innovations, such as hexadecimal and bicycle. Also used in medals that commemorate an anniversary, such as sesquicentennial (150 years), centennial (100 years), or bicentennial (200 years).
  • They occur in constructed words such as systematic names. Systematic names use numerical prefixes derived from Greek, with one principal exception, nona-.
  • They occur as prefixes to units of measure in the SI system. See SI prefix.
  • They occur as prefixes to units of computer data. See binary prefixes.
  • They occur in words in the same languages as the original number word, and their respective derivatives. (Strictly speaking, some of the common citations of these occurrences are not in fact occurrences of the prefixes. For example: millennium is not formed from milli-, but is in fact derived from the same shared Latin root – mille.)

Because of the common inheritance of Greek and Latin roots across the Romance languages, the import of much of that derived vocabulary into non-Romance languages (such as into English via Norman French), and the borrowing of 19th and 20th century coinages into many languages, the same numerical prefixes occur in many languages.

Numerical prefixes are not restricted to denoting integers. Some of the SI prefixes denote negative powers of 10, i.e. division by a multiple of 10 rather than multiplication by it. Several common-use numerical prefixes denote vulgar fractions.

Words containing non-technical numerical prefixes are usually not hyphenated. This is not an absolute rule, however, and there are exceptions (for example: quarter-deck occurs in addition to quarterdeck). There are no exceptions for words comprising technical numerical prefixes, though. Systematic names and words comprising SI prefixes and binary prefixes are not hyphenated, by definition.

Nonetheless, for clarity, dictionaries list numerical prefixes in hyphenated form, to distinguish the prefixes from words with the same spellings (such as duo- and duo).

Several technical numerical prefixes are not derived from words for numbers. (mega- is not derived from a number word, for example.) Similarly, some are only derived from words for numbers inasmuch as they are word play. (Peta- is word play on penta-, for example. See its etymology for details.)

The root language of a numerical prefix need not be related to the root language of the word that it prefixes. Some words comprising numerical prefixes are hybrid words.

In certain classes of systematic names, there are a few other exceptions to the rule of using Greek-derived numerical prefixes. The IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry, for example, uses the numerical prefixes derived from Greek, except for the prefix for 9 (as mentioned) and the prefixes from 1 to 4 (meth-, eth-, prop-, and but-), which are not derived from words for numbers. These prefixes were invented by the IUPAC, deriving them from the pre-existing names for several compounds that it was intended to preserve in the new system: methane (via methyl, which is in turn from the Greek word for wine), ethane (from ethyl coined by Justus von Liebig in 1834), propane (from propionic, which is in turn from pro- and the Greek word for fat), and butane (from butyl, which is in turn from butyric, which is in turn from the Latin word for butter).

Cardinal Latin series edit

Distributive Latin series edit

  • unary, binary, trinary, quaternary, quinary, senary, ... vicenary ... centenary ...
  • denarian, vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, sexagenarian, septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, ... millenarian

Greek series edit

Mixed language series edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ These months' prefixes originated in a conjectured, pre-historical Roman 10 month calendar. See Roman Calendar.
  2. ^ a b See Mendeleev's predicted elements for the most common use of Sanskrit numerical prefixes.
  3. ^ The numbering adjectives in Greek are inflectional for grammatical gender (i.e. there is monos [masculine for single/alone], mone [feminine for single/alone] and monon [neuter for single/alone]), grammatical case (i.e. nominative, genitive, etc.) and grammatical number (singular/plural). The prefixes are produced from the default grammatical type (masculine/nominative/singular).
  4. ^ Demi- is French, from Latin dimidium.
  5. ^ sol (sōlus) is more appropriately a Latin root for "only", "oneself".
  6. ^ sim- (sin-) is found in the words simplex, simple.
  7. ^ a b The Greek prefix for 'one' is normally mono- 'alone'. Hen- 'one' is only used in compound numbers (hendeka- 11) and a few words like henad (= monad). Haplo- 'single' is found is a few technical words such as haploid.
  8. ^ a b The forms related to quattuor "four", like the previous three integers, are irregular in Latin and other Indo-European languages, and the details, while presumably a form of assimilation, are unclear.[11] In particular, quadri- has the alternate form quadru- before p in some Latin words, such as quadruple.
  9. ^ Sometimes Greek hexa- is used in Latin compounds, such as hexadecimal, due to taboo avoidance with the English word sex.
  10. ^ For Latinate 21, 22, etc., the pattern for the teens is followed: unvigint-, duovigint-, etc. For higher numbers, the reverse order may be found: 36 is trigintisex-. For Greek, the word kai ("and") is used: icosikaihena-, icosikaidi-, pentacontakaipenta-, etc. In these and in the tens, the kai is frequently omitted, though not in triskaidekaphobia. (The inconsistency of triskaidekaphobia with the table above is explained by the fact that the Greek letter kappa can be transliterated either "c" or "k".) In chemical nomenclature, 11 is generally mixed Latin-Greek undeca-, and the 20s are based on -cos-, for example tricos- for 23.
  11. ^ In organic chemistry, most prefixes are Greek but the prefixes for 9 and 11 are Latin.

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  5. ^ δίς
  6. ^ δεύτερος
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  9. ^ τρίτος
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  31. ^ ἐννέα
  32. ^ ἔνατος
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  36. ^ δέκατος
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  39. ^ ἕνδεκα
  40. ^ ἑνδέκατος
  41. ^ δώδεκα
  42. ^ δωδέκατος
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  55. ^ ἐννακόσιοι
  56. ^ ἐνακοσιοστός
  57. ^ χίλιοι
  58. ^ χιλιοστός
  59. ^ δισχίλιοι
  60. ^ τρισχίλιοι
  61. ^ τρισχιλιοστός
  62. ^ πεντακισχίλιοι
  63. ^ μυρίος
  64. ^ μυριαστός
  65. ^ ὀκτακισμύριοι

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numeral, prefix, semi, redirects, here, other, uses, semi, disambiguation, numeral, number, prefixes, prefixes, derived, from, numerals, occasionally, other, numbers, english, many, other, languages, they, used, coin, numerous, series, words, example, simplex,. semi redirects here For other uses see semi disambiguation Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers In English and many other languages they are used to coin numerous series of words For example simplex duplex communication in only 1 direction at a time in 2 directions simultaneously unicycle bicycle tricycle vehicle with 1 wheel 2 wheels 3 wheels dyad triad tetrad 2 parts 3 parts 4 parts biped quadruped hexapod animal with 2 feet 4 feet 6 feet September October November December 7th month 8th month 9th month 10th month A binary ternary octal decimal hexadecimal numbers expressed in base 2 base 3 base 8 base 10 base 16 septuagenarian octogenarian a person 70 79 years old 80 89 years old centipede millipede subgroups of arthropods with around 100 feet or around 1000 feet In many European languages there are two principal systems taken from Latin and Greek each with several subsystems in addition Sanskrit occupies a marginal position B There is also an international set of metric prefixes which are used in the world s standard measurement system Contents 1 Table of number prefixes in English 2 Occurrences 2 1 Cardinal Latin series 2 2 Distributive Latin series 2 3 Greek series 2 4 Mixed language series 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 BibliographyTable of number prefixes in English editIn the following prefixes a final vowel is normally dropped before a root that begins with a vowel with the exceptions of bi which is extended to bis before a vowel among the other monosyllables du di dvi and tri never vary Words in the cardinal catgegory are cardinal numbers such as the English one two three which name the count of items in a sequence The multiple category are adverbial numbers like the English once twice thrice that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items Enumeration with the distributive catgegory originally was meant to specify one each two each or one by one two by two etc giving how many items of each type are desired or had been found although distinct word forms for that meaning are now mostly lost The ordinal catgegory are based on ordinal numbers such as the English first second third which specify position of items in a sequence In Latin and Greek the ordinal forms are also used for fractions for amounts higher than 2 only the fraction 1 2 has special forms The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number take for example the following Ordinalnumbers primary secondary tertiary quartary citation needed quintary sextary septimary octavary nonary decimary Distributivenumbers singulary citation needed binary ternary trinary quaternary quinary senary septenary octonary novenary denary For the hundreds there are competing forms Those in gent from the original Latin and those in cent derived from centi etc plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 Many of the items in the following tables are not in general use but may rather be regarded as coinages by individuals In scientific contexts either scientific notation or SI prefixes are used to express very large or very small numbers and not unwieldy prefixes Number prefixes in English Number Latinderived Greek C derived Sanskrit B Cardinal Multiple Distributive Ordinal Cardinal Multiple proportional orquantitative Ordinal 0 nulli nullesim miden ouden medeproto oudeproto shunya 1 12 unci 1 Greek uses ordinals to name fractions i e dodecato 1 8 octant As above ogdoo 1 6 sextant As above hecto 1 5 quintant As above pempto 1 4 quadrant As above tetarto 1 3 trient As above trito 1 2 semi demi D hemi half a 3 4 dodrant 1 uni b sol E c sim F singul prim mono one alone d holo entire full e hen G rare mono one alone hapax once haplo G single monad one of a kind unique unit prot 2 f protaio every first day eka 3 1 1 4 quasqui g 1 1 2 sesqui h 2 du bi bis i bin second di dy 4 duo dyo dis 5 twice commondyakis twice rarediplo double dyad two of akind deuter 6 j deuteraio every second day dvi 7 2 1 2 semiquin k 3 tri l ter tern trin terti tri m tris 8 thrice commontriakis thrice raretriplo triple triad three of a kind trit 9 third n tritaio every third day tri 10 4 quadri quadru H quater 12 quatern 13 quart 14 tetra tessara tetrakis four times tetraplo quadruple tetrad four of a kind o tetarto fourth tetartaio every fourth day catur 15 5 quinque 16 quin 17 quint 18 penta pentakis pentaplo pentad p pempt 19 pemptaio panca 20 6 sexa I sen 21 sext 22 hexa 23 hexakis hexaplo hexad q hect 24 hectaio ṣaṭ 25 7 septem septi r septen 26 septim hepta 27 s heptakis heptaplo heptad hebdomo seventh hebdomaio seventh day t sapta 28 8 octo u octon 29 octav 30 octo v octakis octaplo octad w ogdoo ogdoaio aṣṭa 9 novem x noven nona ennea 31 enneakis enneaplo ennead enat 32 enataio nava 10 decem dec y den 33 decim 34 deca 35 z decakis decaplo decad decat 36 decataio dasha 11 undec unden 37 undecim 38 hendeca 39 hendeca kis plo d hendecat 40 o aio ekadasha 12 duodec duoden aa duodecim dodeca 41 ab dodeca kis plo d dodecat 42 o aio dvadasha 13 tredec treden tredecim tria kai deca decatria ac tris kai decakis decatria kis plo d decatotrito etc trayodasha 14 quattuordec quattuorden quattuordecim quartadecim tessara kai deca decatettara decatessara tetra kai decakis decatetra kis plo d ad decatotetarto chaturdasha 15 quinquadec quindec 43 quinden 44 quindecim 45 quintadecim pente kai deca decapente penta kai decakis decapentakis etc decatopempto panchadasha 16 sedec 46 sexdec but hybrid hexadecimal seden sedecim sextadecim hexa kai deca hekkaideca decahex hexa kai decakis decahexakis etc decatohecto shodasha 17 septendec septenden septendecim septimadecim hepta kai deca decahepta hepta kai decakis decaheptakis etc decatohebdomo saptadasha 18 octodec octoden octodecim duodevicesim octo kai deca decaocto octa kai decakis decaoctakis etc decatoogdoo ashtadasha 19 novemdec novendec undeviginti novemden novenden novemdecim novendecim undevisim ennea kai deca decaennea ennea kai decakis decaenneakis etc decatoenato navadasha 20 J viginti vicen vigen vigesim e icosi eicosa kis plo d ae eicosto vimshati 22 duovigint e icosidyo dyo e icosi rare af e icosidyakis e icosidiplo e icosidyad eicostodeutero 24 quattuorvigint e icositettara e icosikaitettara rare e icositetrakis e icositetraplo e icositetrad ag eicostotetarto chaturvimshati 25 quinvigint e icosipente ah e icosipentakis e icosipentaplo e icosipentad eicostopempto 30 triginti tricen trigesim triaconta triacontakis etc ai triacosto trimshat 31 untriginti triacontahen triacontahenakis triacontahenaplo triacontahenad triacostoproto triacostoprotaio 40 quadraginti quadragen quadragesim tettaraconta tessaraconta tettaracontakis tessaracontakis etc tessaracosto chatvarimshat 50 quinquaginti 47 quinquagen 48 quinquagesim 49 penteconta aj pentecontakis etc pentecosto ak panchashat 60 sexaginti sexagen sexagesim hexeconta hexecontakis etc hexecosto shasti 70 septuaginti al septuagen septuagesim 50 hebdomeconta hebdomecontakis etc hebdomecosto saptati 80 octogint octogen octogesim ogdoeconta ogdoecontakis etc ogdoecosto ashiti 90 nonagint nonagen nonagesim eneneconta enenecontakis etc enenecosto navati 100 centi centen centesim hecato n hecatontakis hundred timeshecatontaplo hundred multiplehecatontad hundred of a kindalso abbreviated inhec aton tad hecatosto hundredthhecatostaio the hundredth day shata 120 viginticenti hecaton e icosi hecaton e icosakis etc hecatostoeicosto 150 sesquicenten am 200 ducenti ducen bicenten ducentesim diacosia diacosakis etc diacosiosto 250 semiquincenten an 300 trecenti trecen tercenten tricenten trecentesim triacosia etc triacosakis triacosaplo triacosad triacosiosto 400 quadringenti quadringen quatercenten quadricenten quadringentesim tetracosia tetracosakis etc tetracosiosto 500 quingent 51 quincent 52 quingen 53 quingenten quincenten quingentesim 54 pentacosia pentacosakis etc pentacosiosto 600 sescenti sexcenti sescen sexcenten sescentesim hexacosia hexacosakis etc hexacosiosto 700 septingenti septingen septingenten septcenten septingentesim heptacosia heptacosakis etc heptacosiosto 800 octingenti octingen octingenten octocenten octingentesim octacosia octacosakis etc octacosiosto 900 nongenti nongen nongentesim ennacosi 55 derived fromen n iacosia a pejoration ofenneacosia enneacosakis etc enacosiost 56 alt spellingen n iacosiost o a pejoration ofenneacosiosto 1000 milli millen millesim khili 57 kilo khiliakis khiliaplo chiliad chiliost 58 sahasra 2000 duomilli diskhili 59 diskhiliakis etc diskhiliosto 3000 tremilli triskhili 60 triskhiliost 61 5000 quinmilli pentaciskhili 62 10000 decamilli myria 63 ao decakiskhilia myriakis myriaplo myriad decakiskhiliakis etc myriast 64 decakiskhiliosto ayuta 80000 octogintmilli octacismyri 65 100000 or105 centimilli decakismyria hecatontakiskhilia decakismyriakis hecatontakiskhiliakis etc laksha 1000 000 or106 hecatommyria see also mega hecatommyriakis a million times hecatommyriaplo million multiple hecatommyriad a million of a kind hecatommyriosto ranked millionth also one piece of a million fraction see above in fractions hecatommyriostaio the millionth day infini apeiro Few pauci ap oligo aq Many more than 1 multi pluri ar poly as pollakis many times pollaplo multiple plethos many of a kind at pollosto rank order of many manieth bahut Examples e g hemisphere e g universe unilateral e g solo soliloquy e g monogamy e g holocaust holography e g proton protozoa e g quasquicentennial e g sesquicentennial sesquipedalian e g bireme bilingual bipolar bipartisan e g Deuteron ium Deuteronomy e g semiquincentennial e g trireme e g triathlon Tripolis e g Triton ium e g tetrahedron e g pentahedron e g hexahedron e g September e g heptathlon e g hebdomas e g October e g octopus e g octahedron e g November e g December e g decathlon decahedron decagon e g duodenum e g dodecahedron e g triskaidekaphobia e g tetradecahedron decatetrahedron e g e icosahedron e g docosa hexaenoic acid a pejoration of dyoicosa hexanoic e g e icositetragon e g eicosapenta enoic acid e g triacontahedron e g penteconter e g pentecost e g Septuagint e g sesquicentennial e g semiquincentennial e g myriapoda e g pauciparous e g oligopoly oligarchy oligomer oligonucleotide oligopeptide oligosaccharide e g multilingual multiple pluripotent pluricentric e g polyhedra polygamy polypod polyglot polymath polymer e g plethoraOccurrences editNumerical prefixes occur in 19th 20th and 21st century coinages mainly the terms that are used in relation to or that are the names of technological innovations such as hexadecimal and bicycle Also used in medals that commemorate an anniversary such as sesquicentennial 150 years centennial 100 years or bicentennial 200 years They occur in constructed words such as systematic names Systematic names use numerical prefixes derived from Greek with one principal exception nona They occur as prefixes to units of measure in the SI system See SI prefix They occur as prefixes to units of computer data See binary prefixes They occur in words in the same languages as the original number word and their respective derivatives Strictly speaking some of the common citations of these occurrences are not in fact occurrences of the prefixes For example millennium is not formed from milli but is in fact derived from the same shared Latin root mille Because of the common inheritance of Greek and Latin roots across the Romance languages the import of much of that derived vocabulary into non Romance languages such as into English via Norman French and the borrowing of 19th and 20th century coinages into many languages the same numerical prefixes occur in many languages Numerical prefixes are not restricted to denoting integers Some of the SI prefixes denote negative powers of 10 i e division by a multiple of 10 rather than multiplication by it Several common use numerical prefixes denote vulgar fractions Words containing non technical numerical prefixes are usually not hyphenated This is not an absolute rule however and there are exceptions for example quarter deck occurs in addition to quarterdeck There are no exceptions for words comprising technical numerical prefixes though Systematic names and words comprising SI prefixes and binary prefixes are not hyphenated by definition Nonetheless for clarity dictionaries list numerical prefixes in hyphenated form to distinguish the prefixes from words with the same spellings such as duo and duo Several technical numerical prefixes are not derived from words for numbers mega is not derived from a number word for example Similarly some are only derived from words for numbers inasmuch as they are word play Peta is word play on penta for example See its etymology for details The root language of a numerical prefix need not be related to the root language of the word that it prefixes Some words comprising numerical prefixes are hybrid words In certain classes of systematic names there are a few other exceptions to the rule of using Greek derived numerical prefixes The IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry for example uses the numerical prefixes derived from Greek except for the prefix for 9 as mentioned and the prefixes from 1 to 4 meth eth prop and but which are not derived from words for numbers These prefixes were invented by the IUPAC deriving them from the pre existing names for several compounds that it was intended to preserve in the new system methane via methyl which is in turn from the Greek word for wine ethane from ethyl coined by Justus von Liebig in 1834 propane from propionic which is in turn from pro and the Greek word for fat and butane from butyl which is in turn from butyric which is in turn from the Latin word for butter Cardinal Latin series edit unicycle bicycle tricycle quadricycle uniped biped triped quadruped H centipede millipede Distributive Latin series edit unary binary trinary quaternary quinary senary vicenary centenary denarian vicenarian tricenarian quadragenarian quinquagenarian sexagenarian septuagenarian octogenarian nonagenarian centenarian millenarian Greek series edit monad dyad triad tetrad pentad hexad heptad ogdoad ennead decad triacontad hecatontad chiliad myriad digon trigon tetragon pentagon hexagon heptagon octagon enneagon decagon hendecagon dodecagon enneadecagon icosagon triacontagon chiliagon myriagon trilogy tetralogy pentalogy hexalogy heptalogy monopod dipod tripod tetrapod hexapod octopod decapod Mixed language series edit pentane hexane heptane octane nonane K decane undecane icosane binary ternary quaternary quinary senary septenary octal nonary decimal duodecimal hexadecimal vigesimal quadrovigesimal duotrigesimal sexagesimal octogesimalSee also editIUPAC numerical multiplier List of numbers List of numeral systems List of commonly used taxonomic affixes English numerals Names for tuples of specific lengthsNotes edit These months prefixes originated in a conjectured pre historical Roman 10 month calendar See Roman Calendar a b See Mendeleev s predicted elements for the most common use of Sanskrit numerical prefixes The numbering adjectives in Greek are inflectional for grammatical gender i e there is monos masculine for single alone mone feminine for single alone and monon neuter for single alone grammatical case i e nominative genitive etc and grammatical number singular plural The prefixes are produced from the default grammatical type masculine nominative singular Demi is French from Latin dimidium sol sōlus is more appropriately a Latin root for only oneself sim sin is found in the words simplex simple a b The Greek prefix for one is normally mono alone Hen one is only used in compound numbers hendeka 11 and a few words like henad monad Haplo single is found is a few technical words such as haploid a b The forms related to quattuor four like the previous three integers are irregular in Latin and other Indo European languages and the details while presumably a form of assimilation are unclear 11 In particular quadri has the alternate form quadru before p in some Latin words such as quadruple Sometimes Greek hexa is used in Latin compounds such as hexadecimal due to taboo avoidance with the English word sex For Latinate 21 22 etc the pattern for the teens is followed unvigint duovigint etc For higher numbers the reverse order may be found 36 is trigintisex For Greek the word kai and is used icosikaihena icosikaidi pentacontakaipenta etc In these and in the tens the kai is frequently omitted though not in triskaidekaphobia The inconsistency of triskaidekaphobia with the table above is explained by the fact that the Greek letter kappa can be transliterated either c or k In chemical nomenclature 11 is generally mixed Latin Greek undeca and the 20s are based on cos for example tricos for 23 In organic chemistry most prefixes are Greek but the prefixes for 9 and 11 are Latin References edit uncia Charlton T Lewis and Charles Short A Latin Dictionary on Perseus Project prῶtos Liddell Henry George Scott Robert A Greek English Lexicon at the Perseus Project Monier Williams Monier 1899 एक A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo European Languages Oxford Clarendon Press OCLC 685239912 dyo dis deyteros Monier Williams Monier 1899 द व A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo European Languages Oxford Clarendon Press OCLC 685239912 tris tritos Monier Williams Monier 1899 त र A Sanskrit English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo European Languages Oxford Clarendon Press OCLC 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