eleven
Translingual
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven
- (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 11, used only with o'clock to indicate direction
English
[edit]| 110 | ||
| ← 10 | 11 | 12 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: eleven Ordinal: eleventh Latinate ordinal: undecimary Adverbial: eleven times Multiplier: elevenfold Latinate multiplier: undecuple Germanic collective: elevensome Greek or Latinate collective: hendecad Greek collective prefix: hendeca- Latinate collective prefix: undeca- Fractional: eleventh Number of musicians: undecet | ||
Alternative forms
[edit]- Arabic numerals: 11
- Roman numerals: XI
Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛvən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɛv.ən/, /iˈlɛvən/
- (India) IPA(key): /lɛvən/, /iˈlɛvən/
- (casually also) IPA(key): [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛvən
Numeral
[edit]eleven
- The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
- 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:
- It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.
- 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:
- 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 […]
- 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven (plural elevens)
- (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
- (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
- (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
- A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
- B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
- (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
- An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- A very high level of intensity.
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Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]eleven
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven c
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Lexicalization of the obsolete form of the present participle élő (“living”),[1] originally an adverb, compare hirtelen, meztelen.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]eleven (comparative elevenebb, superlative legelevenebb)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | eleven | elevenek |
| accusative | elevent | eleveneket |
| dative | elevennek | eleveneknek |
| instrumental | elevennel | elevenekkel |
| causal-final | elevenért | elevenekért |
| translative | elevenné | elevenekké |
| terminative | elevenig | elevenekig |
| essive-formal | elevenként | elevenekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | elevenben | elevenekben |
| superessive | elevenen | eleveneken |
| adessive | elevennél | eleveneknél |
| illative | elevenbe | elevenekbe |
| sublative | elevenre | elevenekre |
| allative | elevenhez | elevenekhez |
| elative | elevenből | elevenekből |
| delative | elevenről | elevenekről |
| ablative | eleventől | elevenektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
elevené | eleveneké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
elevenéi | elevenekéi |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ eleven in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ eleven in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
[edit]- eleven in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- eleven in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Middle English
[edit]Numeral
[edit]eleven
- Alternative form of elleven
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven m
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven m
Spanish
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[edit]eleven
- inflection of elevar:
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eleven
Tok Pisin
[edit]| ← 10 | 11 | 12 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: eleven | ||
Etymology
[edit]Numeral
[edit]eleven
Usage notes
[edit]Used when counting; see also wanpela ten wan.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99
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