eleven

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The number 11, one more than ten.

   There are eleven players on a soccer team.

2. 2
   noun

   A sports team of eleven players, especially in football or cricket.

   He earned a place in the school's first eleven.

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.

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