Unit prefix or if letters such as "T", which are already in use as SI units or prefixes, will again be skipped. Several personal proposals have been made for extending the series of prefixes, with ascending terms such as "xenna, weka, vendeka" (from Greek "ennea" (9), "deka" (10), "endeka" (11)) and descending terms such as "xono", "weco", "vundo" (from Latin "novem/nona" (9), "dec" (10), "undec" (11). Using Greek for ascending and Latin for descending would be consistent with established prefixes such as "deca, hecto, kilo" vs "deci, centi, milli"). Although some of these are repeated on the internet, none are in actual
Latin spelling and pronunciation Latin spelling and pronunciation Latin spelling, or Latin orthography, is the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from Old Latin to the present. All scripts use the same alphabet, but conventional spellings may vary from phase to phase. The Roman alphabet, or Latin alphabet, was adapted from the Old Italic script to represent the phonemes of the Latin language. The Old Italic script had in turn been borrowed from the Greek alphabet, itself adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. The Latin alphabet most resembles the Greek alphabet around 540 BC, as it appears