Definitions For Twelfty

Alternative forms

twelvety

Etymology

twelve + ty, from {{inh + en + ang + hundtwelftiġ}}. compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatig, hundniġontiġ and hundtēontiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety and one hundred, reflecting the old germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system. this hund#ang2 + decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. emhund/em originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of latin centum/">hund was used for counting higher decades, and eventually became the root of hundred. hund originally meant 120 (now called a long hundred or great hundred, and preserved in the term hundredweight), but was used to translate multiples of latin centum + + 100, and eventually picked up that value when used in isolation as well.

Numeral

(nonstandard) One hundred (and) twenty; 120.

Related terms

eleventy

Translations

Esperanto: cent dudek French: douzante {{qualifier, neologism}}, six-vingts {{qualifier, archaic}} Old English: hundtwelftiġ Old Norse: hundrað Welsh: chweugain