nineteen

• Arabic numerals: 19. Roman symbols: XIX

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English nigontīene, nigontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Cognate with Dutch negentien, Low German negenteihn, Hunsrik neinzen, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪn.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /naɪnˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

nineteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

• (ordinal): nineteenth

• (adj. of the number 19 or a 19-year period): decennoval

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