huitante

See also: huiptante, huitanté, and huitantè

French

**French cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : huitante Ordinal : huitantième

Etymology

From Latin octoginta. Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante.

Pronunciation

^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi.tɑ̃t/

Numeral

huitante

(cardinal, obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland, ^[1] and other dialects:, Acadian, Louisiana) eighty

Il a écrit huitante mots. ― He wrote eighty words.

Usage notes

In Cajun French, some dialects use huitante(due to Acadian influence) and others use quatre-vingts (mainly those of Louisiana Colonial French descent).

Synonyms

quatre-vingts (outside Switzerland and in the Swiss cantons of Geneva, Berne, Neuchâtel and Jura^[1])
huiptante (Acadian)
octante

See also

References

1 2 André Thibault, Pierre Knecht, Dictionnaire suisse romand: Particularités lexicales du français contemporain [Swiss French dictionary: Linguistic particularities of modern French], 2004 (Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland: Éditions Zoé, 1997), p. 457

Further reading

“huitante” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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