"thirty" in seven languages
Meaningthirty
Spanish
treinta
/ˈtɾeinta/
inherited
French
trente
/tʁɑ̃t/
inherited
Italian
trenta
/ˈtrenta/
inherited
Portuguese
trinta
/ˈtɾĩtɐ/
inherited
Romanian
treizeci
/trejˈzetʃʲ/
other source · Romanian compound trei zeci 'three tens'
Catalan
trenta
/ˈtɾentə/
inherited
English
thirty
/ˈθɝti/
Indo-European kin · PIE *tréyes + *déḱm̥ 'ten'
English → ItalianthirtytrentaDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche).What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TRĪGINTĀ (spoken *TRĪNTA)‘thirty’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Every Latin ten from 30 to 90 ended in -GINTĀ; spoken Latin cut it to -nta, which the sisters share: -enta/-inta, -ante/-ente, -anta/-enta.
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More in Numbers
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- fiftycincuentacinquantecinquantacinquentacincizecicinquanta
- sixtysesentasoixantesessantasessentașaizeciseixanta
- seventysetentasoixante-dixsettantasetentașaptezecisetanta
- eightyochentaquatre-vingtsottantaoitentaoptzecivuitanta
- ninetynoventaquatre-vingt-dixnovantanoventanouăzecinoranta