![]() The usual ordinal form is "twelfth" but "dozenth" or "duodecimal" (from the Latin word) is also used in some contexts, particularly base-12 numeration. Every other Indo-European language instead uses a form of "two"+" ten", such as the Latin duōdecim. It is sometimes compared with the Lithuanian dvýlika, although -lika is used as the suffix for all numbers from 11 to 19 (analogous to "-teen"). German zwölf), whose Proto-Germanic ancestor has been reconstructed as * twaliƀi., from * twa (" two") and suffix * -lif- or * -liƀ- of uncertain meaning. ![]() It has cognates in every Germanic language (e.g. Such uses gradually disappeared with the introduction of Arabic numerals during the 12th-century Renaissance.ĭerived from Old English, twelf and tuelf are first attested in the 10th-century Lindisfarne Gospels' Book of John. Early Germanic numbers have been theorized to have been non- decimal: evidence includes the unusual phrasing of eleven and twelve, the former use of "hundred" to refer to groups of 120, and the presence of glosses such as "tentywise" or "ten-count" in medieval texts showing that writers could not presume their readers would normally understand them that way. Twelve is the largest number with a single-syllable name in English. It is central to many systems of timekeeping, including the Western calendar and units of time of day and frequently appears in the world's major religions. It is the number of years required for an orbital period of Jupiter. Twelve is a superior highly composite number, divisible by the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 6. 12 ( twelve) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13.
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