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vigesimal definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to or based on the number twenty

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin vicesimus, vigesimus twentieth; akin to Latin viginti twenty, Greek eikosi Date: circa 1656 based on the number 20

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of twentieths or twenty. 2 reckoning or reckoned by twenties. Derivatives: vigesimally adv. Etymology: L vigesimus f. viginti twenty

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vigesimal Vi*ges"i*mal, a. [L. vigesimus twentieth, from viginti twenty.] Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts. --Tylor.