Argentina and More Latin Words And Numbers And A Mistake I Made

I was telling a member of my family that the country name Argentina comes from the Latin for silver. They pointed out that the place name Costa Dorada comes from the Latin for gold, which is aurum. The Au is then written in many languages as O.

D comes from de meaning of.

Easy to see the origin of the word gold in several languages, Spanish, French, Catalan, Romanian, Albanian, Malay.

Chocolates called d'or mean of gold.

Costa Duarada
Spanish gold coast, comes from the Latin aurum.

Easier to remember than words are the numbers.

Numbers
Look at the Latin inscriptions on Roman ruins and learn the numbers so you can read the birth  and death dates, or ages, of the deceased. Check the date of the inscription.

Even a modern building often has the date written in Roman numerals. That is handy. It saves muddling dates with house numbers which are written in Arabic numerals.

Once I looked at a house in the USA. I said to the family, "That house was built in 1804."
My family replied, "And the next one was built in 1806, the one after that in 1808."

Wiki answers everything, sometimes in too much detail.

Cardinal numerals[edit]

The cardinal numerals are the ordinary numbers used for counting ordinary nouns ('one', 'two', 'three' and so on):

1	I	ūnus, ūna, ūnum	11	XI	ūndecim	21	XXI	vīgintī et ūnus	101	CI	centum et ūnus
2	II	duo, duae, duo	12	XII	duodecim	22	XXII	vīgintī et duo	200	CC	ducentī, ducentae, ducenta
3	III	trēs, tria	13	XIII	trēdecim	30	XXX	trīgintā	300	CCC	trecentī, trecentae, trecenta
4	IV	quattuor	14	XIV	quattuordecim	40	XL	quadrāgintā	400	CD	quadringentī, quadringentae, quadringenta
5	V	quīnque	15	XV	quīndecim	50	L	quīnquāgintā	500	D	quīngentī, quīngentae, quīngenta
6	VI	sex	16	XVI	sēdecim	60	LX	sexāgintā	600	DC	sescentī, sescentae, sescenta
7	VII	septem	17	XVII	septendecim	70	LXX	septuāgintā	700	DCC	septingentī, septingentae, septingenta
8	VIII	octō	18	XVIII	duodēvīgintī	80	LXXX	octōgintā	800	DCCC	octingentī, octingentae, octingenta
9	IX	novem	19	XIX	ūndēvīgintī	90	XC	nōnāgintā	900	CM	nōngentī, nōngentae, nōngenta
10	X	decem	20	XX	vīgintī	100	C	centum	1000	M	mīlle

I often refer to simple wiki.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/latin-word-for

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