huitante

See also: huiptante, huitanté, and huitantè

French

French numbers ^(edit)

		800[a], [b]
[a], [b] ←  70	[a], [b] ←  79	80	81  → [a], [b], [c], [d], [e]	90  → [a], [b]
		8
Cardinal (decimal): huitante, octante     Cardinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingts     Ordinal (decimal): huitantième, octantième     Ordinal (vigesimal): quatre-vingtième     Ordinal abbreviation: 80e, (now nonstandard) 80ème
French Wikipedia article on 80

Alternative forms

• huiptante (Acadia)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi.tɑ̃t/

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Numeral

huitante (invariable)

1. (obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland and other dialects: Acadia) eighty

   Synonyms: (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura) quatre-vingts, octante

   Il a écrit huitante mots. ― He wrote eighty words.

Related terms

• huit

See also

• nonante
• octante
• septante

Further reading

• “huitante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.