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Converts a roman numeral to an ordinal century, so 'XIX' ⟶ '19th century'.
Usage
[edit]{{Nth century|XIX}}
{{Nth century|XV|short=yes}}
Parameters
[edit]|1=
– a roman numeral between I and XXV
|short=
– if present, emits 'c.' instead of the word 'century'. Alias: 'abbr'.
Examples
[edit]{{Nth century|XIX}}
→ 19th century{{Nth century|XV|short=yes}}
→ 15th c.
Technical
[edit]A planned expansion will permit roman numeral ranges with hyphens in param 1 , e.g., XV-XVII
.
Designed to catch similar templates from other Wikipedias, which would otherwise result in undefined template errors after translation. Known examples:
- French: fr:Template:S-; redirect: Template:S-