Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Univerbation of spre +‎ zece, literally to ten. The formation is otherwise unknown to the Romance languages, and was influenced by neighbouring languages, such as Albanian -mbëdhjetë and Old Church Slavonic на десѧте (na desęte).[1]

Suffix

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-sprezece

  1. -teen (+10)
    un (one) + ‎-sprezece → ‎unsprezece (eleven)
    cinci (five) + ‎-sprezece → ‎cincisprezece (fifteen)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Glanville Price (1992) “Romance”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 460