octodecim

Alternative forms

 * Symbol: XVIII

Etymology
From +.

Numeral

 * 1)   eighteen; 18
 * 2) * 1543, Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, III Kings, "De porticu"
 * "la"

- Quarum talis erat compositio: Stylus, vel stipes columnae octodecim habebat cubitos altitudinis



Usage notes
This form is rare, and is found primarily in bookish post-Classical Latin. The usual word for eighteen in Classical Latin is, whereas modern Romance languages descend from the form decim et octō.