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Numeral Adverbs.

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The Numeral Adverbs answer the question quotién (quotiés), how many times? how often?



1. semel,once 12. duodeciéns 40. quadrágiéns
2. bis, twice 13. terdeciéns 50. quínquágiéns
3. ter, thrice 14. quaterdeciéns 60. sexágiéns
4. quater 15. quíndeciéns 70. septuágiéns
5. quínquiéns (-és)[1][Forms in -ns are often written without the n.] 16. sédeciéns 80. octógiéns
6. sexiéns 17. septiésdeciéns 90. nónágiéns
7. septiéns 18. duodévíciéns 100. centiéns
8. octiéns 19. úndévíciéns 200. ducentiéns
9. noviéns 20. víciéns 300. trecentiéns
10. deciéns 21. semel víciéns,[2][Also written víciéns et semel or víciéns semel, etc.] etc. 1000. míliéns
11. úndeciéns 30. tríciéns 10,000. deciéns míliés

a. Numeral Adverbs are used with mílle to express the higher number[QUERY]

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  • ter et tríciéns (centéna mília) séstertium, 3,300,000 sesterces (three and third times a hundred thousand sesterces).

    

  • víciés ac septiés míliés (centéna mília) séstertium, 2,700,000,000 sesterces (twenty-seven thousand times a hundred thousand).

    

NOTE: These large numbers are used almost exclusively in reckoning [QUERY] and centéna mília is regularly omitted (see § 634).