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The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like the English once, twice, thrice, that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items.
In linguistics, a numeral in the broadest sense is a word or phrase that describes a numerical quantity.Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the quantity of a noun, for example the "two" in "two hats".
once; one (also noun and pronoun) said (also verb) several (also adjective) some; somebody; something; somewhere; sufficient (also adjective) that; the; these; this; those; three (also noun) thrice; twice; two (also noun) us (also pronoun) various; we (also pronoun) what (also pronoun and adjective) whatever; which (also pronoun) whichever; you ...
the long scale — designates a system of numeric names formerly used in British English, but now obsolete, in which a billion is used for a million million (and similarly, with trillion, quadrillion etc., the prefix denoting the power of a million); and a thousand million is sometimes called a milliard. This system is still used in several ...
According to this, there should be nothing after the "once, twice, thrice" series. However, as “once”, “twice”, “thrice” obviously come from the Middle English cardinal numbers “on” (one), “twi” (two), “thri” (three) plus the “-ce” suffix (from the Anglo-Saxon adverbial genitive ending “-es”), so the following ...
In this two-player version one person is designated the "odds" player while the other is labeled "evens". Players hold one hand out in front of them and count together to three (sometimes chanting "Once, twice, thrice, shoot!" or "One, two, three, shoot!"). On "shoot", both players hold out either one or two fingers.
When we did our times tables at school, we had some teachers who said 'once one is one', 'twice one is two' etc., but not with 'thrice'. These days the schools all say 'one times one is one', 'two times one is two' etc.... So maybe it is losing its joint monopoly with 'once' for having special words. 'Thrice' was either retired or fired.
Expressions with similar quantification meanings such as a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a great deal of, tons of, etc. are sometimes said to be determiners, [18]: 263 while other grammars argue that they are not words, or even phrases. The non-determiner analysis is that they consist of the first part of a noun phrase.