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- Latin · derived fromvīgintī“twenty”
- English todayvigintile
From Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) + -ilis (adjective-forming suffix), equivalent to viginti- + -ile.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency. Full definition →