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Let’s jump on today’s bandwagon from the perspective of words. Two words—one Greek, one Latin—have influenced some words in English that bear the meaning eleven, In Greek, it was hendeca; in Latin, undecim. Both are the equivalent of 10 + 1.

• hendecachord: a series or scale of eleven notes.
• hendecacolic: consisting of eleven cola.
• hendecagon: a plane figure having eleven sides and eleven angles.
• hendecagynous: having eleven pistils.
• hendecahedron: a solid figure contained by eleven faces.
• hendecandrous: having eleven stamens.
• hendecaphyllous: (of a leaf) consisting of eleven leaflets.
• hendecarchy: government by eleven persons.
• hendecameter: an 11 syllable line written with a trochee followed by a dactyl and 3 trochees in that order.
• hendecasemic: (prosody) of the value of eleven moræ or units of time.
• hendecad: a period of eleven years used to adjust the ancient calendar.
• hendecathlon: an athletic event that requires proficiency in 11 different sports.
• undecagon: a plane figure having eleven sides and angles.
• undecennary: given, occurring, or observed every eleventh year, or once in every eleven years.
• undecimal: characterized in some way by the number eleven.
• undecimarticulate: having eleven sections.
• undecimvir: The body of eleven magistrates in ancient Athens.
• undenary: having a base of eleven.
• undectet: an eleven-piece band.
• undecuple: multiplied by eleven.
• undecennary: given, occurring, or observed every eleventh year, or once in every eleven years.

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