nineteen
SayNYN-teen/ˈnaɪnˌtin/UK/ˈnaɪntiːn/
- 1The cardinal number that comes after eighteen and before twenty, written 19 or XIX, and the largest of the teens.
The team scored nineteen points in the final quarter to win the game.
Nineteen people signed up for the weekend workshop.
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Origin
From Middle English nynetene, from Old English niġontīene, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun, and cognate with Dutch negentien and German neunzehn. It is equivalent to nine plus the suffix -teen.