A

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ.
* The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.

Item A is "foods", item B is "drinks".

The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


f

Old English lower case letter f, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case f of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚠ (f, “fe”).

The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.


seven

PIE word
 *septḿ̥
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:

The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.

2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC:

A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages


o

The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.


zero

→ Japanese: ゼロ

→ Tokelauan: helo

From Spanish zero (now cero), Middle French zero (modern French zéro), and their etymon Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from (semantic loan) Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.

der

The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.

A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

"A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything. Therefore, a zero is something, yet zero."
 These words of wisdom from the Dalai Lama might not have been in the minds of planners and engineers when designing new railway station platforms, but for several main line stations, zero is indeed something. Eight stations in the UK now operate a Platform 0 - from Cardiff to Kings Cross, Doncaster and Haymarket.

2025 May 14, Andy Comfort, “Holding out for a zero...”, in RAIL, number 1035, page 58:

The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

nul

cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing


one

Bahamian Creole: wan

Belizean Creole: wan

Bislama: wan

Gullah: one

Jamaican Creole: wan

Nigerian Pidgin: wọ́n, wọn

Sranan Tongo: wan

Tok Pisin: wan

→ Atong (India): wan

→ Fanagalo: wan

PIE word
 *h₁óynos
From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).
Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.
The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een).
Verb form from Middle English onen.

inh

wone (alternative obsolete)
I (alternative)

one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't

In some religions, there is more than one god.

In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.

One person, one vote.

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do / Two can be as bad as one / It's the loneliest number since the number one

1968, Harry Nilsson, “One”, in Aerial Ballet:

In 1964, Dupuy developed the “Theoretical Lethality Index” (TLI), which calculated the lethal capacity of weapons across time. The TLI table showed how many persons a soldier with a weapon could theoretically kill in one hour.

2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN:

The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

(Chenega, Nanwalek, Port Graham) all'inguq

(number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.

(set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.

(mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.


two

Solombala English: ту (tu)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English two, twa, from Old English twā, feminine and neuter of twēġen (whence twain), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Cognate with Scots twa (“two”); North Frisian tou, tuu (“two”); Saterland Frisian twäin, two (“two”); West Frisian twa (“two”); Dutch twee (“two”); Low German twee, twei (“two”); German zwei, zwo (“two”); Danish and Norwegian to (“two”); Swedish två, tu (“two”); Icelandic tvö (“two”); Faroese tvey (“two”); Latin duō (“two”); Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”); Irish dhá (“two”); Lithuanian dù (“two”); Russian два (dva, “two”); Albanian dy (“two”); Old Armenian երկու (erku, “two”); Sanskrit द्व (dvá, “two”); Tocharian A wu, Tocharian B wi. Doublet of duo. See also twain.

twain (alternative dated)
twey (alternative archaic)

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

one can't hold two watermelons in one hand

put two and two together and come up with five

A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).

“[…]The two murders might have been done by one of the ryots who was dissatisfied over his assessment and thought he had a grievance. […].”

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

The surveillance program includes at least 480 LPRs that scan and record about 16.2 million vehicles per week and stores that data for two years, he wrote in the court filing.

2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News:

Describing a set or group with two elements.

па́ра

describing set or group with two elements


three

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey.
Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

thre (alternative)
þree (alternative)
threy (alternative)
thrie (alternative)

There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.

1995, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Friends of the House, →ISBN, page 79:

Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
Three! Who said anything about “go”?

2003 April 7, Michelle Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

Why should she care? One…two…
Do we shoot on three?
Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.

2011 October 18, Paul Dini, Paul Crocker, Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:

The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.

2021 September 15, Hannah Ryan, “RuPaul has a new namesake – and it’s a fabulous, rainbow-colored fly”, in CNN:

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).

Describing a set or group with three elements.

өсәү

describing set or group with three components


four

desc

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: fuar, fua

Aukan: fo

Australian Kriol: fo

Belizean Creole: foa, foar

Bislama: fo

Cameroon Pidgin: fo̱

Grenadian Creole English: fo

Gullah: fo

Krio: fo

Nigerian Pidgin: fo̱r

Pichinglis: fo

Pijin: foa

Saramaccan: fɔ́

Sranan Tongo: fo

Tok Pisin: foa

Torres Strait Creole: po

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

PIE word
 *kʷetwóres
From Middle English four, from Old English fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.
Cognates include Scots fower, Saterland Frisian fjauer, West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch vier, German Low German veer, German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʻors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: […]

2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:

A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

Describing a set or group with four elements.

дүртәү

describing set or group with four components


five

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

doublet

The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.

2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

2025 March 31, Adrian Ashford, “Gov. Abbott directs Texas Rangers to investigate EPIC for ‘potential criminal activities’”, in The Dallas Morning News:

A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.

Describing a group or set with five elements.

бишәү

describing set or group with five components


i

The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.


dick

From a Cumbric *deg, corresponding to Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg.

(Cumbria) Ten, in Cumbrian sheep counting.


six

Sranan Tongo: siksi

Aukan: siksi

→ Wayana: siksi

Saramaccan: sigisi

PIE word
 *swéḱs
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice. Toilet sense predates military usage.

A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This number of dots: (••••••).

it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six


billion

→ Chichewa: biliyoni

→ Hausa: biliyan

→ Hawaiian: piliona

→ Maori: piriona

→ Niuean: piliona

→ Samoan: piliona

→ Shona: bhiriyoni

→ Somali: bilyan

→ Swahili: bilioni

→ Tongan: piliona

→ Welsh: biliwn

→ Xhosa: ibhiliyoni

→ Zulu: ibhiliyoni

From French billion, from bi- (“two”) + -illion.

երկիլիոն

a million million; 1,000,000,000,000 — see also trillion

At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).

1921 January 24, “National Finances”, in Devon and Exeter Gazette, page 5:

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual

2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:

Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500 billion yen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.

2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:

The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1 billion visits by February 2023.

2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays” (18617), in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 1:

Plaintiff States also receive billions of dollars in funds every year directly from Treasury through BFS under federal grant programs.

2025 February 8, “COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF”, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, page 2:

(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard

modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale

miljard

a thousand million (1,000,000,000); a milliard

n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million

1778, Francis Maseres, “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series …”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume lxviii, number xli:

There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done.

2000 November 8, Stephen Ladyman, “[Speech to the House of Commons]”, in Hansard:

(dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million (times a) million (logic: 1,000,000²): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (10¹²); a thousand milliard.

British & Australian; long scale; British & Australian; long scale

There were billions of people at the concert.

(colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.


trillion

→ Welsh: triliwn

Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion.

biljoen

a million million, 1012 — see also billion

تِرِيلِْيُون

a million million million, 1018 — see also quintillion

Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.

2024 January 3, Hanna Ziady and Tami Luhby, “US national debt hits record $34 trillion”, in CNN:

As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.

2025 March 7, Kayla Tausche, “Dismantling of Education Department puts future of trillions of dollars in student loans in question”, in CNN:

(US, modern British, Australia, short scale) A million (times a) million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².

(dated British, Australia, long scale) A million (times a) million (times a) million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.


eight

Sranan Tongo: aiti

PIE word
 *oḱtṓw
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).

2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.

The statement did not specify the location of that trip, but provided further details of her romantic life, stating that Saroukos and her husband spent eight days together before she returned to Australia on Dec. 21.

2025 May 30, Riley Cedar, “Soldier’s wife deported to Australia after detainment in Hawaii”, in Military Times:

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

He works eight hours a day.

Describing a group or set with eight elements.


nine

PIE word
 *h₁néwn̥
From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नवन् (navan, “nine”).

Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?

2007, Thomas Mchenry, Along the Rails: A Juror's Journey, page 85:

Tamunowari Tetenta, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, says he has attempted to register for his NIN on nine different occasions in Port Harcourt, a city southeast of Lagos.

2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:

A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.

A cat has nine lives.

Describing a group or set with nine elements.


ten

PIE word
 *déḱm̥
From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.

There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.

1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:

A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.

(Can we date this quote?), “What is a Ten Frame and why is it a useful tool for developing early number relationships and fact fluency?”, in Rhodes University, page 1:

The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

tammá

the cardinal number occurring after 9 and before 11

十

じゅう, jū; とお, tō


eleven

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

der

Arabic numerals (alternative)
Roman numerals (alternative)

It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.

1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:

I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]

2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:

It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.

2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:

The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

elf

the cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve


twelve

→ Japanese: トゥエルブ (tuerubu)

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated

From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).

XII (alternative)
twelue (alternative obsolete)

There are twelve months in a year.

Hopper points out that duodecads have been prominent in every ancient civilization and cites as examples twelve spokes in the wheel of the Hindu Rta, the twelve gates of hell where Egyptian Ra must spend the twelve hours of night, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve labors of Hercules, [...]

1972, Eleanor Webster Bulatkin, Structural Arithmetic Metaphor in the Oxford "Roland.", Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.


thirteen

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three + -teen.

There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope. No noteworthy incident occurred until after leaving Foochow when, as we were enjoying our after dinner coffee and cigars, and by chance discussing the question of thirteen sitting down at table that had occurred at a dinner at which one of the party had shortly before been present, a violent thump and tremulous motion of the vessel announced the unpleasant fact that we had struck upon something. We rushed on deck and found the steamer hard and fast on a reef near Matsu Island. Fortunately the day was fine and there was no sea on.

1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:

In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶

2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:

The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIII and in Arabic numerals as 13.

dertien

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen


fourteen

From Middle English fourtene, from Old English fēowertīene, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Cognate with West Frisian fjirtjin, Dutch veertien, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten. Equivalent to four + -teen.

XIV (alternative)
fourteene (alternative obsolete)
forteen (alternative obsolete)
forteene (alternative obsolete)

[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.

ዐስር ወአርበዕ

ʿäsr wäʾärbäʿ


million

→ Hawaiian: miliona

→ Maori: miriona

→ Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)

→ Welsh: miliwn

→ Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) + -one). Compare -illion.

af

from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">mille</i>

der

Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.

(long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.

I told you a million times before.

I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

Let him bring millions infinite of men,
Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:


fifteen

fifteenth (ordinal)
fiveteen (alternative obsolete)
fifteene (alternative obsolete)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.

She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:

The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).


seventeen

From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten.
Equivalent to seven + -teen

XVII (alternative)
zewnteen (alternative)

[T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.

1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

ዓሰርተ ሸውዓተ

ʿasärtä šäwʿatä


sixteen

From Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six + -teen.

Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.

The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.

ዓሰርተ ሽድሽተ

ʿasärtä šədšətä


nineteen

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English niġontīene, niġontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.
Equivalent to nine + -teen

She says groovy like it's nineteen sixty-nine.

1997, Swan Dive, “Groovy Tuesday” (track 1), in Wintergreen, performed by Swan Dive:

The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

十九

じゅうきゅう, jūkyū, じゅうく, jūku

ዓሰርተ ትሽዓተ

ʿasärtä təšʿatä

decennoval

adj. of the number 19 or a 19-year period


twenty

Hawaiian Creole: twenty

Tok Pisin: twenti

From Middle English twenty, twenti, from Old English twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) + *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

compound

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.


twenty two

The cardinal number occurring after twenty one and before twenty three, represented in Roman numerals as XXII and in Arabic numerals as 22. Ordinal: twenty-second.


thirty

From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).

inh

threety (alternative)
thirtie (alternative)
XXX (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:thirty.

The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.


forty

From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).

UK, General Australian, New Zealand, horse–hoarse merger

'Tis forty years this very day,
 Since you and I, old girl, were married.

1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

veertig

the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine


fifty

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

fiftie (alternative)
fitty (alternative)
fiddy (alternative)

The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.


sixty

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From Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six + -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).

The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.


seventy

From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven + -ty. Cognate with Scots seiventy (“seventy”), Saterland Frisian soogentich (“seventy”), West Frisian santich (“seventy”), Dutch zeventig (“seventy”), German Low German söventig (“seventy”), German siebzig (“seventy”), Swedish sjuttio (“seventy”), Norwegian sytti (“seventy”), Icelandic sjötíu (“seventy”).

cog

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.


eighty

From Middle English eiȝti, eyȝty, eiȝtety, aghty, from Old English hundeahtatiġ, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutēhundą (“eighty”), equivalent to eight + -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), Saterland Frisian tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).

The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

quatre-vingts

All French-speaking countries except part of Switzerland and Acadia


ninety

From Middle English nynty, nynety, from Old English hundniġontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *newuntēhundą (“ninety”), equivalent to nine + -ty. Cognate with Scots nynty, nynety (“ninety”), Saterland Frisian njuugentich (“ninety”), West Frisian njoggentich (“ninety”), Dutch negentig (“ninety”), German Low German negentig (“ninety”), German neunzig (“ninety”), Swedish nittio (“ninety”), Norwegian Bokmål nitti (“ninety”), Norwegian Nynorsk nitti (“ninety”), Icelandic níutíu (“ninety”).

The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as 90.

九十

きゅうじゅう, kyūjū, くじゅう, kujū


hundred

hundreds (plural)
C (alternative)
hecto- (alternative)

→ Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

/ˈhʌnd͡ʒəɹd/

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

hundreds of thousands of faces.

a/one hundred

A few hundred pounds' worth of chicken and serveral dozen eggs.

A few hundred migrants who have been waiting in Reynosa, Mexico, for the end of the US pandemic public health order, known as Title 42, were allowed to seek asylum this week, sources on the ground told CNN.

2022 April 21, Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Amir Vera, “CBP allows a few hundred vulnerable migrants to seek asylum this week as thousands wait in Mexico for Title 42 to end, sources say”, in CNN:

The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.

2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN:

A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

“Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I'll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:

(24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.


thousand

thousands (plural)
M (alternative)
kilo- (alternative)

→ Hawaiian: kaukani, tausani

From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).

The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.

Many thousands of people came to the conference.

Three thousand years back in the Babylonian, Syrian, and Egyptian histories brings us to a period where their records are fragmentary and involved in great obscurity. In the history of China, it brings us to the Tchou dynasty, where the events of Chinese history "begin to be more trustworthy."

1889, Charles Taze Russell, The Time Is At Hand, Allegheny, PA: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, published 1907, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.

1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:

And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:

A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10³ (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

miler or milenar

approximately, or a set of a size numbered in the thousands

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step


two thousand

two thousand and one
two thousand and one

The cardinal number occurring after one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and before two thousand and one.


X

Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.

Let X represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.


eighteen

From Middle English eightetene, eiȝtene, ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.
Equivalent to eight + -teen

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

1971, Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.


five hundred

The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.


el

The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.


an

From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.

inh

(nonstandard, British, West Country) one


tan

From a Brythonic language; influenced in form by yan (“one”) in the same series.

(dialect, rare) The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting.


do

The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.


(in the context of the number sign ⠼) The digit 1


e

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.


b

The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.


c

Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).

The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.


d

From the Old English lower case letter d, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case d of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.

The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.


g

The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.


h

The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.


k

The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.


l

The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.


m

The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.


n

The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.


p

The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.


q

The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.


r

Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.

The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.


s

The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.


t

The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.


one hundred

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thirty-one

Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.


quadrillion

→ Welsh: cwadriliwn

From French quadrillion, from quadri- (“four”) + -illion.

Previous: trilliard. Next: quadrilliard.

A man named Chris Reynolds was credited $92 quadrillion USD on his paypal account, "This unexpected influx of wealth elevated him to the status of the richest person on the planet and the only quadrillionaire to have ever existed". Following this, after the man reported this error and it was fixed, "PayPal owned up to their mistake and thanked the richest man of all time for understanding the situation, saying: 'This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case'".

2013 July, Microsoft Network, Richest Man of All-Time Dramatically Gained and Lost His Entire Fortune in Just 2 Minutes:

“I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:

Integrating data from all continents and major biomes, we conservatively estimate 20 × 10¹⁵ (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon.

2022 September 19, P. Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 2:

(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.

կվադրիլիոն

a thousand trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000); a billiard — see also a thousand trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000); a billiard

(dated, UK, Australia, long scale) A million trillion (logic: 1,000,000⁴): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 10²⁴.

քառիլիոն

a million trillion, 1024 — see also septillion


twenty-one

twenty one (alternative)
twentyone (alternative)

The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.


twenty-two

The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22.


twenty-three

From Middle English twenty-thre, twenti-thre, twenti-thrie, twenty-thrie, ultimately derived from Old English þrēo and twēntiġ (“twenty-three”, literally “three and twenty”); see also twenty and three. The reason for the numerical swap across the spellings for all English numbers is unknown, but it may have been influenced by the Old French system, i.e. see vint trois (literally “twenty three”). By surface analysis, twenty (“the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one”) + three (“the cardinal number 3, occurring after two and before four”).

surf

twenty three (alternative)
twenti-thre (alternative obsolete)
XXIII (alternative Roman numeral)
xxiii (alternative Roman numeral)

Reſolved, &c. That this Houſe doth accept of the Sum of One hundred Twenty-three Pounds of James Whitewick, of Coventry in the County of Warwick, Gentleman; his Delinguency being, That he went and reſided in the Gariſons held againſt the Parliament: Submitted before December 1645: His Eſtate, per Annum, Sixty Pounds; Perſonal Eſstate, Thirty Pounds: For which the Fine, at a Tenth, is One hundred Twenty-three Pounds.

1646 October 27, Journals of the House of Commons, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, page 707:

Admiral Rooke, with twenty-three Men of War, having the Turky Fleet under his Convoy, was attacked off Cape St. Vincent by the whole French Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Tourville; twelve Engliſh and Dutch Men of War, and above four-ſcore Merchant-men, were taken or deſtroyed by the French.

1760, A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, 7 edition, W. Johnston, page 311:

Maryland has exported nearly eight times as much as Connecticut; above six times as much as Rhode Island; twenty-three times as much as New Hampshire; almost eighty times as much as Vermont; and almost three times as much as the four minor states.

1817, Mathew Carey, The Olive Branch: Or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic; a Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony, 8 edition, M. Carey and Son, page 271:

Avignon was twenty-three kilometres away, on the second-class road N 570. We could be there in about half an hour. And we were, without stopping to admire any antiquities.

1953, Gratix Dawson, In Pursuit of the Vine, H. Jenkins, page 196:

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, 2 Kings 23:31:

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-two and preceding twenty-four; 23.


twenty-four

"The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."

1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80:

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.


twenty-five

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-four and preceding twenty-six.

that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee


twenty-six

It was certainly an old smell – of that I could be certain. But it was not, I was sure, produced by any of the three thousand one hundred and twenty-six cheeses, yoghurts and fromages blancs that were being stored in the crypt.

2007, Giles Milton, Edward Trencom’s Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 65:

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-five and preceding twenty-seven.


twenty-seven

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-six and preceding twenty-eight.


twenty-eight

The lunar quality of Osiris's body is emphasized by his age of twenty-eight, the number of the phases of the moon.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-seven and preceding twenty-nine.


twenty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-eight and preceding thirty.

二十九

にじゅうきゅう, nijūkyū, にじゅうく, nijūku


quintillion

Previous: quadrillion. Next: sextillion.

Previous: quadrilliard. Next: quintilliard.

Last week, we used[…]the BBC News website's biggest number: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, that's 9.2 quintillion[…][the maximum video viewer count on YouTube's] updated counter software.

2014, “Small Data: Those big numbers keep on coming”, in BBC News Magazine Monitor, BBC:

You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day.

2023 December 18, Charlie Warzel, “Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore”, in The Atlantic:

(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

կվինտիլիոն

a billion billion, 1018 — see also trillion

(dated, British, Australia, long scale) A million quadrillion: 1 followed by 30 zeros, 10³⁰.

հնգիլիոն

a million quadrillion, 1030 — see also nonillion


googol

Coined by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1920, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who had asked Milton to think of a name for the 100th power of ten. The word was first published in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. […] A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is one with a googol of zeros. You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way.

1940, Edward Kasner, James [Roy] Newman, “New Names for Old”, in Mathematics and the Imagination, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 23:

For example, in considering all the finite state grammars that use seven terminal symbols and seven auxiliary symbols (states), [...] he must test over a googol (10^100) candidates.

1979, Steven Pinker, “Formal models of language learning”, in Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:

If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, say, so there was no empty space anywhere, there would still only be about 10¹²⁸ particles in it, quite a bit more than a googol but trivially small compared to a googolplex.

1980, Carl Sagan, chapter IX, in Cosmos:

The number 10¹⁰⁰, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale).

Edward Kasner
Mathematics and the Imagination
googol


googolplex

googolplexes (plural)
googleplex (alternative)

Columbia University
Edward Kasner
Mathematics and the Imagination

From googol + -plex, coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. First published and defined in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

coin

The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. At the same time that he suggested "googol" he gave a name for a still larger number: "Googolplex." A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. It was first suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you got tired. This is a description of what would happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have [Primo] Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. [Albert] Einstein, simply because he had more endurance. The googolplex then, is a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number of zeros is a googol. A googolplex is much bigger than a googol, much bigger than a googol times a googol. A googol times a googol would be 1 with 200 zeros, whereas a googolplex is one with a googol of zeros. You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way.

Consider that we can start with one googolplex and count: two googolplexes, three googolplexes and so on up to a googolplex googolplexes and beyond—and still not have reached infinity.

1952, John Wood Campbell Jr., editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →OCLC, page 164:

1980, Carl Sagan, “chapter IX”, in Cosmos, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN:

The theoretical number of nucleic acids in DNA, Jack had heard centuries ago, was ten to the power of one hundred and twenty thousand. He couldn't even imagine a number that would hold the set of possible universes, meaning every possible state and position for every particle in every Planck time. Googolplex, he thought, 1 followed by a googol of zeroes: googolplex raised to the power of googolplex.

2015, K. G. Johansson, Googolplex, [Sweden?]: Affront, →ISBN:

The number 10^(10¹⁰⁰) or 10^( text )googol, ten to the power of a googol.

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Inflationary theory suggests that the entirety of space is vastly larger. Quantum theory suggests that there are many different copies of space of the same basic kind as ours (same laws of physics). String theory further suggests that there may be many different kinds of space. This whole collection of googolplexes of galaxies within each of googolplexes of different spaces within each of googols of kinds of space makes up an enormously vast universe or multiverse.

2010, Don N[elson] Page, “Our Place in the Vast Universe”, in Melville Y. Stewart, editor, Science and Religion in Dialogue, volume I, Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 371:

In some unimaginable future, the universe will stretch so thin that the light from one galaxy would be unable to reach any other galaxy. Eventually, all the stars would burn out, and the universe would consist of the dead cinders of stars, black holes, and uncountable googolplexes of cubic light-years of cold, empty space.

2014, John [Herbert] Varley, Dark Lightning, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN:

To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes (a googol being the figure 1 followed by a mere 100 zeroes). To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land.

1962, Newsweek: The International Newsmagazine, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54:

Competition among bidders eventually resulted in the discovery of the "Googolplex," a quantity supposedly as near to nothing as possible—one over one with countless zeros [as the size of the portion of land the bidder would accept as security for a tax lien]. This, however, was not the limit of minuteness. The "Googolplex of a Googolplex," or "Gee Gee" for short, became the common bid in the sale of City of Miami tax certificates. There has apparently been no authoritative determination of the effect of an outstanding Miami tax certificate […]

1976, Ralph E. Boyer, Florida Real Estate Transactions, New York, N.Y.: Matthew Bender & Co., →OCLC, pages 930–931:

(US, real estate, nonstandard, rare) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.


sextillion

From sext- (“six”) + -illion; originally the sixth power of a million, 10³⁶.

Previous: quintillion. Next: septillion.

(US, British, Australia, short scale) A trillion billion: 1 followed by 21 zeros, 10²¹.

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a trillion billion, 1021 — see also trilliard

a long scale thousand trillion (trilliard)

(dated British and Australia, long scale) A million quintillion: 1 followed by 36 zeros, 10³⁶.

sextiljoen

a million quintillion, 1036 — see also undecillion


septillion

From French septillion, from sept- (“seven”) + -illion.

(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 10²⁴.

սեպտիլիոն

a trillion trillion, 1024 — see also quadrillion

(dated British & Australian, long scale) A billion quintillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros, 10⁴².

dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale

sepiliono

a billion quintillion, 1042 — see also tredecillion


octillion

Altogether it takes seven billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or seven octillion) atoms to make you.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 5–6:

(US, modern British and Australia, short scale) A thousand trillion trillion, a billion billion billion: 1 followed by 27 zeros, 10²⁷.

(dated British and Australia, long scale) A trillion quintillion: 1 followed by 48 zeros, 10⁴⁸.

一極 /一极

a trillion quintillion, 1048 — see also quindecillion


eighty-one

The cardinal number following eighty and preceding eighty-two.


thousand one

thousand and one (alternative)
one thousand and one (alternative)
a thousand and one (alternative)

(Malaysia, colloquial) One thousand plus one hundred. (1100)


yin

From ān. Doublet of yan, yen, ane and one.

The number one, primarily used in Scotland and Ulster


infinite

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and its etymon Latin īnfīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -ītus. By surface analysis, in- + finite. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.


eighty-eight

Number between eighty-seven and eighty-nine; decimal 88

An abbreviation for 'Hugs and kisses' in amateur radio. Used especially in Morse code.


forty-five

Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.


nonillion

As we have seen that one nought goes to each potency, for the thirtieth potency we will have for the denominator one followed by thirty noughts; or the original drop of drug in one nonillion drops of alcohol!

1922 August, S. E. Chapman, “Potentiality of the Infinitesimals”, in The Pacific coast journal of homœpathy, volume 33, number 8, page 244:

Do ya not be knowin' that there are 10 nonillion atoms within the likes of us?

2001, Raymond E. Fowler, The Melchizedek Connection →ISBN, [books.google.co.uk/books?id=rVbXhvS6C1oC&pg=PA70#v=onepage&f=true page 70]

The figure is 1,267,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In layperson's terms, that's a little over 1.2 nonillion ancestors in the 100th generation.

2011, Desmond Walls Allen, Family History Detective: A step-by-step guide to investigating your family tree, Family Tree Books, →ISBN, page 9:

Hugh: Just think of the tremendous gravity in a star like the sun. Its mass is a few nonillion pounds. / Henry: Nonillion? Are you making that up? / Hugh: No, it's just one of those things that sticks in my hyperactive brain. A nonillion is a number to the 30th power,...

2012, Jim Berge, Prayer, Quantum Physics and Hotel Mattresses: Dissolving the Barrier Between the Seen and Unseen, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

Making certain bold assumptions, my assistant Una determined that chilling the sun’s core to below 10 million degrees would require an ice cube 562,000 miles on a side. If you were planning on using standard-sized cubes from your kitchen freezer, you’d need about 45 nonillion of them.

2012 September 21, Cecil Adams, "The Straight Dope" (syndicated column)

(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³⁰.

The first six figures from the right hand are called the unit period, the next six the million period, after which the trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, and nonillion periods, follow in their order.

1819, George Gregory, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: including the latest improvement and discovery and the present states of every branch of human knowledge, volume 1, Collins and Co, page 248:

There may be stars placed at a distance from us so remote, that a body moving with a volicity (sic.) of a nonillion of miles in one second of time, would occupy a nonillion of years in passing from them to our earth!! [Footnote: A nonillion is a million nine times repeated; Its value is equal to unity followed by 54 cyphers.]

1837, James Utting, “Of a conjunction of the Sun, Moon, planets, and satellites”, in The Mechanics Magazine, volume 26, page 381:

The odds against the observed event having a purely fortuitous origin are a ⁴trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion (a nonillion nonillion) to one — odds to describe whose vastness "number fails."
⁴ As I understand, a million million is a billion, a million billion is a trillion, a million trillion is a quadrillion, and so on up to a nonillion.

1886, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, “The Calculus of Probabilities Applied to Psychical Research. II.”, in Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 4, page 205:

Evolution started with an astronomical population explosion in the bacterial phase of five-nonillion†.

(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10⁵⁴.


pimp

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp.
Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

doublet

(Cumbria and Old Welsh) Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.


seventy-five

What exactly is an automall? Pretty much what the name suggests. Kings Automall, upon completion, will feature ten auto dealerships and several auto-related businesses clustered along a cul de sac on seventy-five acres at the Fields-Ertel Road-I-71 intersection.

1987 December 4, Greg Evans, “The automalling of kings”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page G-6:

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-four and preceding seventy-six.


seventy-eight

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine.

七十八

ななじゅうはち, nanajūhachi, しちじゅうはち, shichijūhachi


five thousand

cardinal number between four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and five thousand and one


ten thousand

And Seamen, will live and increaſe, as in other Ages of the World they uſed to do in times of War, altho Thouſands were kill’d: And of the moſt fighting War the Seamen ever ſaw in England this 100 Years, it can only be ſaid, the Sword or Guns kill’d Thouſands. But this War, without fighting, hath been the Death of ſeveral Ten Thouſands.

1696, W[illiam] Hodges, Humble Proposals for the Relief, Encouragement, Security and Happiness of the Loyal, Couragious Seamen of England, […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 38:

China chose resistance.
This resistance brought suffering that affected each individual. It gave even the young children national consciousness. It put the marching song of the soldiers upon their lips. The children cry the fulfillment of a prediction when they sing "Chi-lai, chi-lai . . ."—"Arise, arise . . . ten thousand with one heart."

1943, Kwok Ying Fung, “Out of Yesterday”, in China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 15:


fife

“Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.

1963, Arthur C Clarke, chapter 6, in Glidepath, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 66:

Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire.


aught

From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (“eight”). More at eight.

Seven — aught — aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season!

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:


lakh

lakhs (plural)
lakh (plural)
lac (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindustani लाख or لاکھ (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa), from लक्ष् (lakṣ, “to mark; to sign; to observe, perceive”), possibly from रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to observe (a duty, law, etc.); to guard, protect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”).

der

They ſay the VVorld ſhall laſt foure Ages; or VVorlds, vvhereof three are paſt. The firſt laſted ſeuenteene Laches (euery Laches containeth a hundred thouſand yeares) and 28000 yeares. Men in that VVorld liued tenne thouſand yeares, vvere of great ſtature of bodie, and great ſinceritie of minde.

1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Great Mogor.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 406:

[T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas [a unit of currency]; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]

1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J[ames] Talboys Wheeler, compiler, “Governorship of Mr. Nathaniel Higginson. 1692–1698.”, in Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham. 1639–1702. […], Madras: […] J[oshua] Higginbotham, […], by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262:

[S]he had gone out to India to keep house for her expensive, raffish father, and she had lived there in splendid style even after her marriage to a penniless young man, her father's aide-de-camp, […] But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.

1972, Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 18:

After a hunt lasting more than a year-and-a-half, police have arrested a couple for duping around 2 lakh people in one of India's biggest investment frauds involving an estimated Rs 1,100 crore.

2012 November 13, Neeraj Chauhan, Dwaipayan Ghosh, “Couple from Maharashtra held for Rs 1,100 crore stock scam”, in The Times of India, Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Times Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-22:

According to data published in WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record, India's annualised non-polio AFP rate for 2011 stood at 15.06 per one lakh children below 15 years of age, compared to a global rate that year of 5.48.

2013 January 3, N. Gopal Raj, “Polio free does not mean paralysis free”, in The Hindu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: THG Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-01-05:

One hundred thousand (100,000; or, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000).


twain

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English tweyne, tweien, twaine, from Old English twēġen m (“two”), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognate with Saterland Frisian twäin, Low German twene, German zween. More at two.
The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its continuation into modern times was aided by its use in KJV, the Marriage Service, in poetry (where it is commonly used as a rhyme word), and in oral use where it is necessary to be clear that two and not to or too is meant.

But the warm twilight round us twain will never rise again.

Bring me these twain cups of wine and water, and let us drink from the one we feel more befitting of this day.

Since I haue your good leaue to goe away,
I will make haſt; but till I come againe,
No bed ſhall ere be guilty of my ſtay,
Nor reſt be interpoſer twixt vs twaine.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 176:

A month or twain to live on honeycomb
Is pleasant;

1866, Algernon Swinburne, Before Parting, lines 1–2:

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

1889, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, line 1:

And whenever Sir Chetwynd spoke of his "young girls" he was moved to irreverent smiling, as he knew the youngest of the twain was at least thirty.

1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 25:

[…] all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.

1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Profanus, lines 26–28:


fower

From Middle English four, fower, from Old English fēower.


forty-two

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three.


gillion

From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.

The internationally agreed symbol for 10^6 is M and this is the initial letter of million. Would it not be logical and convenient to turn this happy accident into a principle and use G, the internationally agreed symbol for 10^9, as the initial letter of the word for 1,000,000,000? That number would thus be called a gillion. Whether the g should be hard or soft is a matter of opinion. I incline to hard because of the derivation from giga.

1968, N. W. Pirie, More About the Units (Nature vol. 220):

(British, rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion.


decillion

Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.

2024 October 29, “Russia Fines Google $2.5 Decillion Over YouTube Bans – RBC”, in The Moscow Times:

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³³.

(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10⁶⁰.


milliard

For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:

(now rare) 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)


sixty-four

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-three and preceding sixty-five.


dek

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The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.


sixty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.


ninety-eight

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-seven — ninety plus eight — and preceding ninety-nine.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിയെട്ട്

toṇṇūṟṟiyeṭṭŭ


thirty-eight

The cardinal number immediately following thirty-seven and preceding thirty-nine.


sixty-eight

sixty eight (alternative)
sixtyeight (alternative)

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-seven and preceding sixty-nine.


sixty-seven

sixty seven (alternative)
sixtyseven (alternative)

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-six and preceding sixty-eight.

ששים־ושבעה

šiším və-šivá


sixty-six

sixty six (alternative)
sixtysix (alternative)

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-five and preceding sixty-seven.

ששים־וששה

šiším və-šišá


sixty-five

sixty five (alternative)
sixtyfive (alternative)

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-four and preceding sixty-six.


thirty-two

/ˌθɜːtiˈtuː/

The cardinal number after thirty-one and before thirty-three.


thirty-three

The cardinal number after thirty-two and before thirty-four.


thirty-four

The cardinal number immediately following thirty-three and preceding thirty-five.


thirty-five

The cardinal number immediately following thirty-four and preceding thirty-six.


thirty-six

The cardinal number immediately following thirty-five and preceding thirty-seven.


thirty-seven

‘You know [...] when people are asked to choose a number between one and a hundred, most people choose thirty-seven.’

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 297:

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-six and before thirty-eight.


thirty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following thirty-eight and preceding forty.


forty-one

The cardinal number immediately following forty and preceding forty-two.


forty-three

The cardinal number immediately following forty-two and preceding forty-four.


forty-four

The cardinal number immediately following forty-three and preceding forty-five.


forty-six

The cardinal number immediately following forty-five and preceding forty-seven.


forty-seven

Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal.

1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator, number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:

The cardinal number immediately following forty-six and preceding forty-eight.


forty-eight

The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine.


forty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following forty-eight and preceding fifty.


fifty-one

The cardinal number immediately following fifty and preceding fifty-two.


fifty-two

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-one and preceding fifty-three.


fifty-three

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-two and preceding fifty-four.


fifty-four

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-three and preceding fifty-five.


fifty-five

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-four and preceding fifty-six.


fifty-six

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-five and preceding fifty-seven.


fifty-seven

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-six and preceding fifty-eight.


fifty-eight

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-seven and preceding fifty-nine.

अष्टापञ्चाशत्

aṣṭāpañcāśat


fifty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following fifty-eight and preceding sixty.


sixty-one

The cardinal number immediately following sixty and preceding sixty-two.


sixty-two

"The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."

1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80:

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-one and preceding sixty-three.


sixty-three

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-two and preceding sixty-four.

ששים־ושלשה

šiším və-šlošá


seventy-one

The cardinal number immediately following seventy and preceding seventy-two.

七十一

ななじゅういち, nanajūichi, しちじゅういち, shichijūichi


seventy-two

The Platonic Great Year, the time it takes to make a complete circuit through the twelve astrological signs, is 25,920 years; ¹/₃₆₀ of that circle, or one degree, is seventy-two."

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-one and preceding seventy-three.


seventy-three

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-two and preceding seventy-four.

七十三

ななじゅうさん, nanajūsan, しちじゅうさん, shichijūsan


seventy-four

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-three and preceding seventy-five.

七十四

ななじゅうし, nanajūshi, ななじゅうよん, nanajūyon, しちじゅうし, shichijūshi


seventy-six

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-five and preceding seventy-seven.

שבעים־וששה

šivím və-šišá

七十六

ななじゅうろく, nanajūroku, しちじゅうろく, shichijūroku


seventy-seven

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-six and preceding seventy-eight.

七十七

ななじゅうなな, nanajūnana, しちじゅうしち, shichijūshichi


seventy-nine

The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty.

七十九

ななじゅうきゅう, nanajūkyū, ななじゅうく, nanajūku, しちじゅうく, shichijūku


eighty-two

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-one and preceding eighty-three.


eighty-three

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-two and preceding eighty-four.


eighty-four

Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.

1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430:

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-three and preceding eighty-five.


eighty-five

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-four and preceding eighty-six.


eighty-six

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-five and preceding eighty-seven.


eighty-seven

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-six and preceding eighty-eight.


eighty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following eighty-eight and preceding ninety.


ninety-one

The cardinal number immediately following ninety and preceding ninety-two.


ninety-two

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-one and preceding ninety-three.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിരണ്ട്

toṇṇūṟṟiraṇṭŭ


ninety-three

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-two and preceding ninety-four.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിമൂന്ന്

toṇṇūṟṟimūnnŭ


ninety-four

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-three and preceding ninety-five.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിനാല്

toṇṇūṟṟinālŭ


ninety-five

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-four and preceding ninety-six.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിയഞ്ച്

toṇṇūṟṟiyañcŭ


ninety-six

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-five and preceding ninety-seven.

תשעים־וששה

tiším və-šišá

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിയാറ്

toṇṇūṟṟiyāṟŭ


ninety-seven

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-six and preceding ninety-eight.

തൊണ്ണൂറ്റിയേഴ്

toṇṇūṟṟiyēḻŭ


ninety-nine

The cardinal number immediately following ninety-eight and preceding one hundred.


naught

From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.

(archaic) Alternative spelling of nought (“zero”).


a

The letter name is from Middle English ā, from Old French, ultimately from Latin ā. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced the futhorc letter ᚪ (a) beginning in the 7th century, and partially also ᚫ (æ).

The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.


B

From the Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by Latin B of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ (b, beorc).

The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.


C

The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.


D

From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d, “daeg”).

The ordinal number fourth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.


E

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, EA, EO, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:
* Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
* Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
* Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
* Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo).
* Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.


F

The ordinal number sixth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ef and written in the Latin script.


G

The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.


H

The ordinal number eighth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called aitch and written in the Latin script.


I

Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan I (i).

The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.


K

The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.


L

The ordinal number twelfth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called el and written in the Latin script.


M

The ordinal number thirteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.


N

The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.


O

The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.


P

The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.


Q

The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.


R

From the Etruscan letter 𐌓 (r, “er”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ρ (R, “rho”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤓 (r, “reš”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁶.

The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.


S

The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.


T

The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.


mn

mn. (alternative)
mln. (alternative)
mln (alternative)

(chiefly British, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of million.


mo

The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.


undecillion

From Latin undecim (“eleven”) + -illion. By surface analysis, un- + decillion.

Previous: decillion. Next: duodecillion.

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale) 10³⁶.

(dated British & Australian, long scale) 10⁶⁶.


x

David Cameron gives a Commons statement after every EU summit and normally they follow a predictable pattern; he says that he set out with X number of aims, and then he explains he has achieved all X of them (even if he hasn’t). The most interesting comments normally come in the exchanges with MPs.

2016 February 22, Andrew Sparrow, “David Cameron's swipe at Boris Johnson in the Commons – verdict”, in The Guardian:

But chances are that Google will continue to float new ideas before eventually merging the best of them into a single, coherent application, as it did with Hangouts. And then it'll start the process again. In the meantime, Google will spend money developing x number of duplicate apps, and users will have to deal with a confusing mess of applications on their home screens.

2016 May 19, Aaron Souppouris, “Why Google can't stop making messaging apps”, in Engadget:

(sometimes humorous) An unknown or unspecified number of.


duodecillion

From duo- + decillion; or from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) + -illion.

Previous: undecillion. Next: tredecillion.

(rare, US, British, Australia, short scale) 10³⁹.

(rare, dated, British, Australia, long scale) 10⁷².


tredecillion

From Latin trēdecim (“thirteen”) + -illion.

The names of the periods above trillion are as follows [...] 15th, tredecillion [...]

1896, Frank H. Hall, The Werner Arithmetic, Oral and Written, Book Two, Parts I and II:

3 quindecillion, 657 quattuordecillion, 262 tredecillion; which is to say the figures 3,657,262 followed by 42 ciphers. Operators of the key punch machines transfer a code symbol from the Census [...].

1946, United States Department of Commerce, The United States Department of Commerce: How it serves you on land and sea and in the air:

The answer is read as: 13 sexdecillion, 253 quindecillion, 796 quattuordecillion, 742 tredecillion, ….

1994, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, The Arithmetic Teacher, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1994)

(rare, US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁴².

(rare, dated, British, Australia, long scale) 10⁷⁸.

Previous: duodecillion. Next: quattuordecillion.


quattuordecillion

From Latin quattuordecim (“fourteen”) + -illion.

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Previous: tredecillion. Next: quindecillion.

(US, British, Australia, rare, short scale) 10⁴⁵.

(dated, British, Australia, rare, long scale) 10⁸⁴.


quindecillion

From Latin quīndec- (“fifteen”) + -illion or quin- + decillion.

Previous: quattuordecillion. Next: sexdecillion.

3 quindecillion, 657 quattuordecillion, 262 tredecillion; which is to say the figures 3,657,262 followed by 42 ciphers. Operators of the key punch machines transfer a code symbol from the Census ….

1946: United States Department of Commerce, The United States Department of Commerce: How it serves you on land and sea and in the air, U. S. Government Printing Office (1946)

One supernova, in 1054, was thought by many to herald the biblical Day of Judgment. We have reached an energy level of 10 quindecillion ergs, or 10⁴⁹ ergs.

1978, D. Wallechinsky, I. Wallace, A. Wallace, The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists, Bantam:

(rare, US, modern British and Australia short scale) 10⁴⁸.

(rare, dated, British and Australia, long scale) 10⁹⁰.


sexdecillion

From Latin sex (“six”) + decem (“ten”) + English -illion.

Previous: quindecillion. Next: septendecillion.

The names of the periods above trillion are as follows...18th, sexdecillion...

1994, The Arithmetic Teacher, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The answer is read as: 13 sexdecillion, 253 quindecillion, 796 quattuordecillion, 742 tredecillion....

How many Stars Shine on Tiny Jennifer’s Hair? ... Two million, three hundred and forty nine thousand, eight hundred seventy five vigintillion, seven hundred fifty four novemdecillion, five hundred forty three octodecillion, four hundred fifty seven septendecillion, eight hundred ninety nine sexdecillion, eight hundred seventy three quindecillion, nine hundred forty five quattuordecillion, nine hundred eighty seven tredecillion, nine hundred eighty seven duodecillion, six hundred undecillion, nine hundred eighty three decillion...

2004, Alan Sondheim, The Wayward, →ISBN, page 138:

After the episode, which had several other startling “coincidences,” I computed the number of chances of it happening again as one in Six Septendecillion, Seven Hundred and Fifty Sexdecillion, with all circumstances the same.

2006, James T. Mangan, The Secret of Perfect Living, Infinity Publishing,, →ISBN, page 200:

(rare, US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁵¹.

(rare, dated, British & Australian, long scale) 10⁹⁶.


septendecillion

From Latin septendecim (“seventeen”) + -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc.

Previous: sexdecillion. Next: octodecillion.

STV by the Numbers: [...] 3000^16 (roughly 43 septendecillion) : number of possible voting permutations if 3,000 students vote (Single Transferable Voting is pretty complicated!).

2003, Bits and Bytes - New voting system demystified:

One Septendecillion Years From Now [...] The total mass of the universe [will be] somewhere between 200 and 500 septendecillion grams.

2003, Magic Dragon Multimedia, Timeline Cosmic Future:

The names of the periods above trillion are as follows [...] 19th, septendecillion [...]

(rare, US, modern British & Australian, short scale) 10⁵⁴.

(rare, dated British & Australian, long scale) 10¹⁰².


novemdecillion

From Latin novemdecim, “nineteen” + -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc.

It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.

1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314:

For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r^([sic]), or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds

2010, SB Seymore, “Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law”, in Duke Law Journal:

It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.

1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, →ISBN, page 66:

Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].

2001 July 15, John Flanagan, “How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 2007-05-17:

The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month. That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.

2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes:

grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!

2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286:

(US; modern British & Australian, short scale, rare) 10⁶⁰.

(dated British & Australian, long scale, rare) 10¹¹⁴.

2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html
‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.

‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.

2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)

‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.

(colloquial, hyperbolic) A very large but unspecified number (of).

Previous: octodecillion. Next: vigintillion.


vigintillion

After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:

Originally, in accordance with the long scale, the twentieth power of a million, 10¹²⁰; now (originally US), in accordance with the short scale, more usually 10⁶³.

Previous: novemdecillion: short scale 1060


two hundred

The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200.


billiard

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.

(British, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

biljardi

a million milliards — see also quadrillion