huitante

From Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi.tɑ̃t/

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huitante

1. (obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland, [1] and other dialects:, Acadian) eighty

   Il a écrit huitante mots. ― He wrote eighty words.

• quatre-vingts (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura[1])
• huiptante (Acadian)
• octante

• huit

• nonante
• septante

• “huitante” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).