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Why do we say "zeroth" instead of, say, "zeroic" for the ordinal number corresponding to zero?

I know that “zeroth” is a coined term, but I was wondering if there was any principled reason for using the ”-th” suffix instead of something unique (as we do for “first,” “second,” and “third”).

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