nineteen

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For Dickie was nineteen, which is the scornful age, you know.

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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 18 + 1.
  2. noun The 19th in a set or sequence.

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  1. Middle English nintene, from Old English nigontēne; see newn̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ninetene, nenteyne, niʒentene, neoʒentene, from Anglo-Saxon nigonty¯ne, Old Saxon nigentein = OFries. niogentena, niguntine = Dutch negentien = Middle Low German negenteine = Old High German niunzehan, Middle High German niunzehen, German neunzehn = Icelandic nītjān = Swedish nitton = Danish nitten = Gothic (Moesogothic) *niuntaihun (not recorded) = Latin novendecim, novemdecim = Greek ἐννεακαίδεκα (καί, and) = Sanskrit navadaça, nineteen; as nine + ten (see -teen).
 

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