hominum.

6. Other Cardinals are indeclinable. Ordinals and Distributives are
declined like Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions.

Peculiarities in the Use of Numerals.

81. 1. The compounds from 21 to 99 may be expressed either with the larger
or the smaller numeral first. In the latter case, et is used. Thus:--

trīgintā sex or sex et trīgintā, _thirty-six_.

2. The numerals under 90, ending in 8 and 9, are often expressed by
subtraction; as,--

duodēvīgintī, _eighteen_ (but also octōdecim);

ūndēquadrāgintā, _thirty-nine_ (but also trīgintā novem or novem et
trīgintā).

3. Compounds over 100 regularly have the largest number first; the others
follow without et; as,--

centum vīgintī septem, _one hundred and twenty-seven_.

annō octingentēsimō octōgēsimō secundō, _in the year 882_.

Yet et may be inserted where the smaller number is either a digit or one of
the tens; as,--