eleventy
numEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *lībaną Proto-Germanic *-lif Proto-Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalif Proto-West Germanic *ainalifun Old English endleofan Middle English elleven English eleven English -ty Old English hundendleftiġ English eleventy From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- inherited from hundendleftiġ
Definitions
The number 110, 11 × 10.
- Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.
- [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday […] “Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”
- without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan
An indefinite large number.
- No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.
- People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.
- According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.
The neighborhood
- neighboreleventeen
- neighborteenty (100)
- neighbortwelfty (120)
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eleventy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA