diezisesh

Ladino

Ladino cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : diezisesh
    Ordinal : diezisesheno

Alternative forms

  • diisesh, dizesej, dizisesh

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dizeseis, diezeseis (literally ten and six), an analytical form (compare Galician dezaseis, Portuguese dezesseis, dezasseis) replacing Old Spanish seze, sedze, from Latin sēdecim (compare Catalan setze, French seize, Italian sedici).

Numeral

diezisesh (Hebrew spelling דייזיסיש)[1]

  1. sixteen (the cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI) [16th c.]
    • 1995, Aki Yerushalayim[1], numbers 49–52, pages 25–6:
      La komunidad djudia de Tetuan tenia diezisesh sinagogas ke se avrian mizmo entre los dias de la semana i a las kualas vinia siempre muncha djente, ainda mas i mas en las fiestas, kuando no avia lugar para todos i munchos azian sus orasiones afuera de eyas.
      Tetuan’s Jewish community had sixteen synagogues that were opened even between the days of the week and many folk came to them, especially during the festivals, when there was no room for everybody and many prayed outside of them.
    • 1998, Ladinar[2], volume 4, המכון לחקר יהדות שאלוניקי, page 194:
      [] publikados desde el siglo diezisesh i asta la mitad del siglo vente.
      Published since the sixteenth century and up to the middle of the twentieth.

References

  1. ^ diezisesh”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim