The corpus record — Latin

viginti

twenty

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 14 · 47.17/10k
Asinaria 19 · 23.52/10k
Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Pseudolus 17 · 15.36/10k
Gordiani Tres 7 · 12.6/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 12 · 10.54/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 15 · 8.87/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 14 · 8.55/10k
Gallieni Duo 3 · 8.17/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 10 · 6.78/10k

Densest 12 of 106 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. viginti — de Vaan

viginti 'twenty'. The higher decades have adopted -aginta from 'thirty' and 'forty'. The expected form of 'fifty' would have been *penkwe-dJont-h2 > *quinqueginta9 of 'sixty' *sexginta/*seginta. Octoginta is regular and nonaginta probably for *nunaginta < *hineun-dkrnt-. The number septuaginta is explained by Meiser from remodelling of *septmaginta < *septw-h}kmt-h2> in other words, he assumes a prior development to … — [de Vaan, s.v. viginti, p. 276]

2. vīginti — Lewis & Short

vīginti (or XX.), num. adj.Sanscr. vicati; Gr. ei)/kosi; Boeot. vi/kati,

I twenty: viginti jam usu'st filio argenti minis, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 76: si viginti quiessem dies, Cic. Planc. 37, 90; id. Univ. 7: annos natus unum et viginti, id. de Or. 3, 20, 74; Liv. 2, 21, 7: blattae impositae diebus viginti uno, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 141; cf. id. 30, 10, 27, § 92: cui (Mithridati) duas et viginti linguas traditur notas fuisse, Quint. 11, 2, 50: quattuor hinc rapimur viginti et milia raedis, Hor. S. 1, 5, 86 et saep.

3. viginti — Walde–Hofmann

viginti (vlt. eint CIL. VI 1900 7, 4 usw.) „zwanzig“ (seit XII tab., rom.) vcicie(n)s „zwanzigmal“ (seit Cic. und Caes.; zur Bildg. s. Stolz ALL. 5, 285, Thurneysen ibid. 576, Leumann-Stolz? 294), vicent, -ae, -a „je zwanzig“ (seit Varro und Cic., Nbf. eigen; seit Colum.; vgl. vicindlis Apul, vicenärius, -a, -um Varro), eice(n)simus, -a, -um und vigesimus, -a, -um „der zwanzigste* (seit Plt. [= av. eisqe3 vilis. 789 … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. viginti, p. 1696]

In the wild

viginti Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 p42
viginti Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 7.65.1
viginti Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 14
viginti Tacitus, Historiae 5.1
viginti Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p57
viginti Historia Augusta, Divus Claudius 2

6 of 699 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. viginti (scan pp. 276-277; entry #693). Root candidates: *xlapro-, *ghIeh2dh-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. viginti (scan pp. 1696-1698; entry #3252). Root candidates: *dkomt-, *ui-, *widh-.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.