number/ɥi.tɑ̃t/
eighty
“Il a écrit huitante mots.” — He wrote eighty words.
Synonyms: quatre-vingts, octante
Inherited from Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.