eleventy

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An indefinite large number

May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670:No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.

The number 110, 11 x 10

Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (= 111), eleventy-six (= 116), eleventy-first (= one-hundred and eleventh), etc.

eleventy

    Этимология

    () *eleven +‎ -ty From Old English hundendleftig (also spelled hund-endleofantiᵹ, hund-endlyftiᵹ, and hund-ælleftiᵹ). Popularized in the 20th century by JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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