Nineteen

Pronunciation

• next word stressed near the first syllableUK IPA: /ˈnaɪn.tiːn/
• next word stressed after the first syllableUK IPA: /naɪnˈtiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 19. Roman symbols: XIX

Origin

From Middle English nynetene, nintene, from Old English nigontīene, nigontēne, from Proto-Germanic *newuntehun. Compare Dutch negentien, German neunzehn, Danish nitten.

Numeral

numeral

1. The cardinal number occurring after eighteen and before twenty, represented in Roman numerals as XIX and in Arabic numerals as 19. It is the last/largest of the "teens".

Related terms

• Ordinal: nineteenth