adj
Meaning 1
Occurring in intervals of twenty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
vigesimal
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Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /vɪˈd͡ʒɛsɪm(ə)l/
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adj
Meaning 2
To the base twenty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: arithmetic
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noun
Meaning 3
A twentieth part.
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noun
Meaning 4
“vigesimal”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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noun
Meaning 5
“vigesimal”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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noun
Meaning 6
“vigesimal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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adjective
Meaning 7
relating to or based on the number twenty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
From Latin vīgēsimus (“twentieth”), variant of Latin vīcēsimus (“twentieth”), from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), (from *vīcēnssos, from Proto-Indo-European *wi(h1)ḱm̥ttós, with the -imus ending of decimus (“tenth”)) + -al (suffix forming an adjective). Compare Latin vīgintī (“twenty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1wih1ḱm̥ti, from *dwi(h1)dḱm̥ti(h1), *dwi(h1)dḱm̥ti (“two tens; two decades”).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: двайсетичен (dvajsetičen) — to the base twenty
- Chinese Mandarin: 二十進位 /二十进位 — to the base twenty
- Czech: dvacítková soustava — to the base twenty
- Dutch: vigesimaal — to the base twenty
- Dutch: twintigtallig — to the base twenty
- Finnish: 20-kantainen (kaksikymmenkantainen) — to the base twenty
- French: vigésimal — to the base twenty
- French: vicésimal — to the base twenty
- Georgian: ოცობითი (ocobiti) — to the base twenty
- German: vigesimal — to the base twenty
- Greek: εικοσαδικός (eikosadikós) — to the base twenty
- Italian: vigesimale — to the base twenty
- Japanese: 二十進法 (nijissimpō) — to the base twenty
- Korean: 이십진법 (isipjinbeop) — to the base twenty
- Polish: dwudziestkowy — to the base twenty
- Russian: двадцатичная систе́ма (dvadcatičnaja sistéma) — to the base twenty
- Spanish: vigésimo — to the base twenty