eleventy

E1L1E1V4E1N1T1Y4
/ɪˈlɛvənti/

numeral

The number 110, 11 × 10.

“Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.”

OriginOld English hundendleftiġ ← Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz ← Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s) →
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Meanings

numeral
  1. informalThe number 110, 11 × 10.

    Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.

    3 more examples

    [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday […] “Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”

    1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, pages 43, 54

    without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan

    1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, page 149

    Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]

    2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174
  2. colloquialAn indefinite large number.

    People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.

    2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19
    2 more examples

    No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.

    May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670

    According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.

    2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
eighty-elevenfifty-elevenforty-elevenmanifoldmultitudinousninety-elevenseventy-elevensixty-eleventhirty-eleventwenty-eleven

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  3. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  4. Proto-Indo-European*leyp-
  5. Proto-Germanic*lībaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*ainalif
  7. Proto-West Germanic*ainalif
  8. Proto-West Germanic*ainalifun
  9. Old Englishendleofan
  10. Middle Englishelleven
  11. Englisheleven
  12. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
  13. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥-t(-s)
  14. Proto-Germanic*tegun(dz)
  15. Proto-Germanic*teguz
  16. Proto-Germanic*tigiwiz
  17. Old Englishhundendleftiġ
  18. Englisheleventy

From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Translations

Bulgarian сто и десет
  • сто и десет (sto i deset)one hundred and ten
Catalan milanta
  • milantaindefinite large number
Chinese Mandarin 一百一十
  • 一百一十one hundred and ten
Finnish satakymmenen
  • satakymmenenone hundred and ten
French onzante
  • onzanteone hundred and ten
Polish sto dziesięć
  • sto dziesięćone hundred and ten
Russian сто де́сять
  • сто де́сять (sto désjatʹ)one hundred and ten
Swedish femtioelva
  • femtioelvaindefinite large number
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APA

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“eleventy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eleventy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eleventy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eleventy.

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