Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
XLV

XLV

6.8
A Roman way of writing the number 45
  • numeral
translation icon : XLV
  • The Roman numeral XLV represents the number forty-five.

Examples

  • And maybe that combination led to the two teams meeting in Super Bowl XLV.

    Blog text (9)

  • Charles Woodson has broken the same collarbone he broke in Super Bowl XLV, and he'll be out of action for approximately six weeks.

    Blog text (17)

  • In Roman numerals, XLV is used for indicating the value of forty-five.

  • XLV is the correct way to write the number 45 in Roman numeral format.

Synonyms

forty-five
vsXLV
33 1.0

The number 45, five more than forty

uses traditional Roman letters to represent that same number

Surface Forms

XLV roman numeral

Etymology

XLV comes from Roman numerals used in ancient Rome. The letters are numbers: X is 'ten', L is 'fifty', and V is 'five', and when X is before L it means 'take ten away from fifty', so XLV is 'forty' plus 'five' and therefore 45.