twelve
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twelve
- (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 12, used only with o'clock to indicate direction
English edit
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Cardinal: twelve Ordinal: twelfth Latinate ordinal: duodecimary Adverbial: twelve times Multiplier: twelvefold Latinate multiplier: duodecuple Group collective: dozen, twelvesome Greek or Latinate collective: duodecad, duodecade Greek collective prefix: dodeca- Latinate collective prefix: duodeca- Fractional: twelfth, dozenth Latinate fractional prefix: unci- Greek prefix: dodecato- Number of musicians: duodecet |
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Etymology edit
From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *twa- (“two”) and *-lif (“left over”) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf, tweelif, tweelich (“twelve”), West Frisian tolve (“twelve”), Dutch twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), German zwölf (“twelve”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, US) enPR: twĕlv, IPA(key): /twɛlv/, [tw̥ɛɫv]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: twəlv, IPA(key): /twəlv/, [tw̥əɫv], enPR: twĕlv, IPA(key): /twelv/, [tw̥eɫv]
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, dated) enPR: twĕv, IPA(key): /twɛv/, [tw̥ɛv][1]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlv
Numeral edit
twelve
- The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
- There are twelve months in a year.
Synonyms edit
- twelveteen (nonstandard)
Derived terms edit
- feel twelve feet tall
- grade twelve
- it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six
- twelve bar blues
- twelve-bar blues
- twelve godfathers
- twelve good men and true
- twelve hundred
- twelve-inch
- twelve-note
- twelve-ounce curls
- twelve-penny nail
- twelve penny nail
- twelvesome
- twelve-speed
- twelve-stepper
- twelve stepper
- twelve-step program
- twelve-tone
- twelve-tone technique
Related terms edit
- Ordinal: twelfth
Descendants edit
- → Japanese: トゥエルブ (tuerubu)
Translations edit
cardinal number 12
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Noun edit
twelve (plural twelves)
- A group of twelve items.
- Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
- A twelve-bore gun.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 880:
- In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.
- (law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
- (slang) The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
- watch your twelve
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:twelve.
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References edit
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 11, page 104.
Middle English edit
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Cardinal: twelve |
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From inflected froms of Old English twelf, from Proto-West Germanic *twalif, in turn from Proto-Germanic *twalif.
Pronunciation edit
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twelve
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