Chapter 138 Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar Dickinson College Christopher Francese

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

1 semel , once 2 bis , twice 3 ter , thrice 4 quater 5 quīnquiēns (-ēs) Forms in -ns are often written without the n . 6 sexiēns 7 septiēns 8 octiēns 9 noviēns 10 deciēns 11 ūndeciēns 12 duodeciēns 13 terdeciēns 14 quaterdeciēns 15 quīndeciēns 16 sēdeciēns 17 septiēsdeciēns 18 duodēvīciēns 19 ūndēvīciēns 20 vīciēns 21 semel vīciēns , Also written vīciēns et semel or vīciēns semel , etc. etc. 30 trīciēns 40 quadrāgiēns 50 quīnquāgiēns 60 sexāgiēns 70 septuāgiēns 80 octōgiēns 90 nōnāgiēns 100 centiēns 200 ducentiēns 300 trecentiēns 1000 mīliēns 10,000 deciēns mīliēns

Numeral Adverbs are used with mīlle to express the higher numbers: ter et trīciēns ( centēna mīlia ) sēstertium , 3 , 300 , 000 sesterces (three and thirty times a hundred thousand sesterces). vīciēs ac septiēs mīliēs ( centēna mīlia ) sēstertium , 2 , 700 , 000 , 000 sesterces (twenty-seven thousand times a hundred thousand). These large numbers are used almost exclusively in reckoning money, and centēna mīlia is regularly omitted (see § 634 ).

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