Ordinal Number

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"In linguistics, ordinal numbers are words representing position or rank in a sequential order. The order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on. In English, they are adjectives such as 'third' and 'tertiary'. They differ from cardinal numbers, which represent quantity."


Spatial/chronological first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth
Precedence/effect primary secondary tertiary quaternary quinary senary septenary octonary novenary decenary undenary duodenary
Greek prefix proto- deutero- trito- tetarto- pempto- ecto- ebdomo- ogdoo- enato- decato- endecato- dodecato-

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_%28linguistics%29

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