cardinal numeral
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cardinal numeral (plural cardinal numerals)
- (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number.
- 1678 — Edward Phillips, The new world of English words: or, a new general dictionary, (first ed. 1658)
- Cardinal numerals, are those which express the number of things.
- 1993 — William W. Derbyshire, A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc.), p.56
- The cardinal numeral ‘one’ occurs in the singular and is declined like bogàt.
- 2002 — Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, "Lexical word-formation", p1621-1722 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p1716
- Numerals cut across the division between syntax and morphology: cardinal numerals expressing numbers below 100 are single words, while those expressing higher numbers are syntactically composite.
- 2005 — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (New York: Harper Resources, 2005), p.97
- In Latin most cardinal numerals through 100 are indeclinable adjectives.
- 1678 — Edward Phillips, The new world of English words: or, a new general dictionary, (first ed. 1658)
- German: Grundzahlwort, Grundzahl, Kardinale Cardinale (obsolete), Kardinalzahlwort, Cardinalzahlwort (obsolete), Kardinalzahl, Cardinalzahl (obsolete)
- Portuguese: numeral cardinal
- Russian: коли́чественное числи́тельное
- Spanish: adjetivo cardinal
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