# nineteen

Pronunciation: say "NYN-teen" US /ˈnaɪnˌtin/, UK /ˈnaɪntiːn/

## Numeral

1. The cardinal number that comes after eighteen and before twenty, written 19 or XIX, and the largest of the teens.
   - Simple: The number that comes after eighteen and before twenty, written as 19.
   - _The team scored nineteen points in the final quarter to win the game._
   - _Nineteen people signed up for the weekend workshop._

## 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.

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