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Where does “dix-huitième” come from?

dix-huitième (French) comes from French -ième, from Middle French -iesme, from Old French -esme, from Latin -esimus.

dix-huitième (French): eighteenth

Definitions

  1. eighteenth

Ancestry of “dix-huitième”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ième-st, -nd, and -th, the suffix denoting an ordinal...
2Middle French-iesme—
3Old French-esme—
4Latin-esimus—

Words derived from “dix-huitième”

  • dix-huitièmement
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