Citations:quindecimation


 * 1901, Joseph Fitzgerald, Word and Phrase: True and False Use in English (A.C. McClurg & Co.), page 273
 * If either a much smaller or a much larger proportion than one in ten is lost, we must change the numerator of our fraction. But what is one to do in such a case? If one must have the precise fractional term in “ation,” and the loss is one in five, let him coin the word quintation; if one in fifteen, quindecimation, if one in twenty, vicesimation.