"X" meaning in Latin

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Character

Forms: x [lowercase]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “chi”), which represented /ks/ in the dialects of most of the Greek mainland and Euboea. Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Χ|t=chi}} Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “chi”) Head templates: {{head|la|letter|upper case|||X|lower case|x|||sc=}} X (upper case, lower case x), {{la-letter|lower=x|upper=X}} X (upper case, lower case x)
  1. The twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, uppercase
    Sense id: en-X-la-character-BJ02V5uo Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 89 11

Numeral

Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “chi”), which represented /ks/ in the dialects of most of the Greek mainland and Euboea. Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Χ|t=chi}} Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, “chi”) Head templates: {{head|la|numeral}} X
  1. ten; decem. Categories (topical): Latin cardinal numbers Related terms: I [Roman, letter, numeral], V [Roman, letter, numeral], L [Roman, letter, numeral], C [Roman, letter, numeral], D [Roman, letter, numeral], M [Roman, letter, numeral], . [Roman, letter, numeral], Appendixes [Latin, Roman, cardinal, numeral] Related terms (Unicode glyphs of Roman numerals): Ⅹ, ⅹ
    Sense id: en-X-la-num-dq3ILnCe

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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