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138. The Numeral Adverbs answer the question quotiēns ( quotiēs ), how many times? how often?

1 semel, once
2 bis, twice
3 ter, thrice
4 quater
5 quīnquiēns (-ēs)1
6 sexiēns
7 septiēns
8 octiēns
9 noviēns
10 deciēns
11 ūndeciēns
12 duodeciēns
13 terdeciēns
14 quaterdeciēns
15 quīndeciēns
16 sēdeciēns
17 septiēsdeciēns
18 duodēvīciēns
19 ūndēvīciēns
20 vīciēns
21 semel vīciēns,2 etc.
30 trīciēns
40 quadrāgiēns
50 quīnquāgiēns
60 sexāgiēns
70 septuāgiēns
80 octōgiēns
90 nōnāgiēns
100 centiēns
200 ducentiēns
300 trecentiēns
1000 mīliēns
10,000 deciēns mīliēns

a. Numeral Adverbs are used with mīlle to express the higher numbers:

  1. ter et trīciēns ( centēna mīlia ) sēstertium, 3,300,000 sesterces (three and thirty times a hundred thousand sesterces).
  2. vīciēs ac septiēs mīliēs ( centēna mīlia ) sēstertium, 2,700,000,000 sesterces (twenty-seven thousand times a hundred thousand).

Note.--These large numbers are used almost exclusively in reckoning money, and centēna mīlia is regularly omitted (see § 634).

1 Forms in -ns are often written without the n.

2 Also written vīciēns et semel or vīciēns semel , etc.

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