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From: "Fredric Z. Saunders" <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Latin help?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:26:10 -0600
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Lisa Lepore [] wrote:
>I thought the number 20 was Viginti so
>23 would be viginti tres?

Yes, "23" is viginti tres, but "23rd" is vicesimus tertio.

>From _Genealogical Research in England and Wales_, Vol. 3, a table of "List
of Latin Numerals and Roman Symbols":
XXIII

Under Cardinals:
Nominative viginti tres

Under Ordinals:
Nominative 23rd vicesimus tertius
Albative vicesimo tertio

Note also on the link you sent to the FHL site, under "numbers" that 23rd is
"vicesimus tertius" and it states at the top "In written dates the ordinal
numbers usually end with the grammatical ending (-o)." That would make
"vicesimo tertio."

Rick Saunders
http://genealogypro.com/fsaunders.html

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