Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
xlii

xlii

1 9.9
The Roman numeral for 42
  • numeral
translation icon : XLII
  • Many people forget that XLII is the Roman numeral for 42 when reading ancient texts.
  • Super Bowl XLII
  • Bowl XLII
  • XLII: New England Patriots

Examples

  • 2006 AFC Title game and Super Bowls XLII and XLVI.

    Blog text (18)

  • It was about 8:30 p.m. local time, 20 hours before the start of Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots, and Coughlin showed the players a video.

    Blog text (24)

  • See, e.g., the letter from W. Pitt, "On the Swedish Turnip," Annals of Agriculture, XLII, 1804, 103-6.

    Academic text (1995)

  • T. Verellen, "Cosmas and Damian in the New Sacristy," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XLII, 1979, 274-277.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In Roman numerals, XLII stands for the number 42.

  • The score of the game ended in XLII to 35, showcasing a strong performance.

Synonyms

forty-two
vsxlii
13 1.0

A number equal to forty plus two

is the Roman numeral written form that represents the same quantity

Surface Forms

xlii cardinal word
42 cardinal digit
42nd ordinal digit
XLII roman numeral

Etymology

The word xlii is the Roman number from ancient Rome for 'forty-two'. It uses old Roman letters: X means 'ten', L means 'fifty', and I means 'one', and when a smaller letter comes before a larger one you 'take away' its value, so XL is 'fifty minus ten', which is 40, and adding II gives 42.