katorze

Ladino

Ladino cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : katorze
    Ordinal : katorzeno

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish catorze, quatordze, from Latin quattuordecim.

Numeral

katorze (Hebrew spelling קאטורזי)[1]

  1. fourteen (14) [16th c.]
    • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade[1], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 17:
      La ija Doreta kere ser avokata, i el terser, Hayimiko tyene katorze anyos.
      The daughter Doreta wants to become a lawyer, and the third one, Hayimiko, is fourteen years old.
    • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar[2], Nur Afakot, page 36:
      Pensas de no poder eskrivir presto? No emporta. I yo empesí avagar avagar. Tinía katorze anyos. I saves porké para mí fue mas fasil? Porké de la edá de diez anyos yo tanyía el piano.
      You think that you can’t write early? Whatever. I started very slowly. I was fourteen years old. And you know why it was easier for me? Because at age ten I was playing the piano.

References

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