Friday, September 16, 2022

🔢 How to count to 10 in Latin

https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Latin/Vocabulary/Count-from-1-to-10

I find this interesting because the numbers 1 to 6 are close to Spanish numbers.

The numbers 7 to 10 resemble our months 9 to 12.  This made me speculate that maybe the ancient Romans only had a 10-month calendar, although this was cited only in legend and the Roman Republic adopted a different 12.5-month calendar.  Later reforms would be done by Julius Ceaser and August Ceasar, from whose names we get July and August.


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