Dozen

A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The English word dozen comes from the old form douzaine, a French word meaning 'a group of twelve' ('Assemblage de choses de même nature au nombre de douze'(translation: A group of twelve things of the same nature as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française). This French word is a derivation from the cardinal number douze ('twelve', from Latin duodĕcim) and the collective suffix -aine (from Latin -ēna), a suffix also used to form other words with similar meanings such as quinzaine (a group of fifteen), vingtaine (a group of twenty), centaine (a group of one hundred), etc. These French words have synonymous cognates in Spanish: docena, quincena, veintena, centena, etc. English dozen, French douzaine, Catalan dotzena, Persian dowjin 'دوجین', Arabic durzen 'درزن', Turkish 'düzine', German Dutzend, Dutch dozijn, Italian dozzina and Polish tuzin, are also used as indefinite quantifiers to mean 'about twelve' or 'many' (as in 'a dozen times', 'dozens of people').A baker's dozen, devil's dozen, long dozen, or long measure is 13, one more than a standard dozen. The broadest use of baker's dozen today is simply a group of thirteen objects (often baked goods). The term has meant different things over the last few centuries.