# eleven
## Translingual
### Alternative forms

* Eleven, ELEVEN

### Etymology

Borrowed from English eleven.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [iˈlɛvən]

### Noun

eleven
* (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 11, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

## English
### Alternative forms

* Arabic numerals: 11
* Roman numerals: XI

### Etymology

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɪˈlɛvən/
* (General American) IPA: /əˈlɛv.ən/, /iˈlɛvən/
* (Indic) IPA: /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/
* (casually also) IPA: [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛvən

### Numeral

eleven
* The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
** 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.
** 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven […]
** 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.

#### Derived terms

* elevener
* elevenie
* elevenish
* elevenness
* elevenpence
* elevenpenny
* elevenscore
* elevenses
* elevensies
* eleventeen
* eleventh
* eleventy
* eplerenone
* forty-leven
* more than eleven
* up to eleven

#### Related terms

* onety-one

#### See also

* Last: ten. Next: twelve

### Noun

eleven (plural elevens)
* (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
* (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
* (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
    A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
    B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!
* (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
** An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
** A very high level of intensity.

#### Synonyms

* (sarcastic substitution for !): one, 1

#### Derived terms

* eleven-dimensional
* eleven hundred
* eleven o'clock
* eleven plus
* eleven-plus
* eleven-striped blind snake
* film at eleven
* first eleven
* grade eleven
* legs eleven
* more at eleven
* number eleven
* second eleven
* seven come eleven
* third eleven
* up to eleven

#### See also

* Appendix:English collective nouns

## Catalan
### Verb

eleven
* third-person plural present indicative of elevar

## Danish
### Noun

eleven c
* definite singular of elev

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Lexicalization of the obsolete form of the present participle élő (“living”), originally an adverb, compare hirtelen, meztelen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛlɛvɛn]
* Hyphenation: ele‧ven
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Adjective

eleven (comparative elevenebb, superlative legelevenebb)
* (literary or archaic) alive
    Synonym: élő
* lively
    Synonyms: élénk, fürge

#### Derived terms

* elevenedik → megelevenedik
* (elevenít →) megelevenít, felelevenít
* elevenség
* elevenül

### References

* ↑ eleven in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ eleven in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* eleven in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* eleven in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Middle English
### Numeral

eleven
* Alternative form of elleven

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

eleven m
* definite singular of elev

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

eleven m
* definite singular of elev

## Spanish
### Verb

eleven
* inflection of elevar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Swedish
### Noun

eleven
* definite singular of elev

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English eleven.

### Numeral

eleven
* eleven

#### Usage notes

Used when counting; see also wanpela ten wan.

#### Coordinate terms

| | —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 |
| 0— | — | wan | tu | tri | foa | faiv | sikis | seven | et | nain |
| 1— | ten | eleven | twelv | tetin | fotin | fiftin | sikistin | seventin | etin | naintin |
| 2— | twenti | tupela ten wan | tupela ten tu | tupela ten tri | tupela ten foa | tupela ten faiv | tupela ten sikis | tupela ten seven | tupela ten et | tupela ten nain |
| 3— | teti | tripela ten wan | tripela ten tu | tripela ten tri | tripela ten foa | tripela ten faiv | tripela ten sikis | tripela ten seven | tripela ten et | tripela ten nain |
| 4— | foti | fopela ten wan | fopela ten tu | fopela ten tri | fopela ten foa | fopela ten faiv | fopela ten sikis | fopela ten seven | fopela ten et | fopela ten nain |
| 5— | fifti | faivpela ten wan | faivpela ten tu | faivpela ten tri | faivpela ten foa | faivpela ten faiv | faivpela ten sikis | faivpela ten seven | faivpela ten et | faivpela ten nain |
| 6— | sikisti | sikispela ten wan | sikispela ten tu | sikispela ten tri | sikispela ten foa | sikispela ten faiv | sikispela ten sikis | sikispela ten seven | sikispela ten et | sikispela ten nain |
| 7— | seventi | sevenpela ten wan | sevenpela ten tu | sevenpela ten tri | sevenpela ten foa | sevenpela ten faiv | sevenpela ten sikis | sevenpela ten seven | sevenpela ten et | sevenpela ten nain |
| 8— | eti | etpela ten wan | etpela ten tu | etpela ten tri | etpela ten foa | etpela ten faiv | etpela ten sikis | etpela ten seven | etpela ten et | etpela ten nain |
| 9— | nainti | nainpela ten wan | nainpela ten tu | nainpela ten tri | nainpela ten foa | nainpela ten faiv | nainpela ten sikis | nainpela ten seven | nainpela ten et | nainpela ten nain |