Translation
twelve
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Twelve months make a year.
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Twelve soldiers came with the leader.
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We were on the road for twelve hours.
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Twelve boys were sitting in the field.
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The father gave twelve books to his son.
Duodecim is duo and decem joined, two and ten. Although duo on its own declines, inside duodecim it does not: the whole word is indeclinable, so duodecim dierum and duodecim militibus.
The ordinal is duodecimus, "twelfth". The number that every Roman schoolboy knew was the Twelve Tables, the Duodecim Tabulae, the first written code of Roman law, which Cicero says boys once learned by heart the way ours learn times tables.
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duodecim: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 10: duodecim, modo, ante and 11 more words.