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English
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Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Reverse order ordinal: fifth to last, fifth from last, last but four Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Group collective: fivesome Multipart collective: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek or Latinate collective: pentad Greek collective prefix: penta- Latinate collective prefix: quinque- Fractional: fifth Latinate fractional prefix: quintant- Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek prefix: pempto- Number of musicians: quintet Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum |
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
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*pénkʷe |
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US, standard) enPR: fĭfth, IPA(key): /fɪfθ/
- (UK, US, informal) enPR: fĭth, IPA(key): /fɪθ/
- (UK, US, dialectal) enPR: fĭft, IPA(key): /fɪft/
- Rhymes: -ɪft
Adjective
[edit]fifth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number five.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Fifth Amendment
- fifth base
- fifth column
- fifth cousin
- fifth cranial nerve
- Fifth Cycle
- fifth-day fits
- fifth disease
- fifth force
- fifth freedom rights
- fifth gear
- fifth grade
- fifth nerve
- fifthness
- fifth normal form
- fifth position
- fifth quarter
- fifth rate
- fifth-rate
- fifth slip
- fifth wall
- fifth wheel
- Fifth World
- plead the fifth
- seventy-fifth
Translations
[edit]Ordinal form of the number 5 — see also 5th
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Noun
[edit]fifth (plural fifths)
- (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
- (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
- (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
- 1984, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Hallelujah”, in Various Positions:
- Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
Synonyms
[edit]- (one of five equal parts): ⅕
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person or thing in the fifth position
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one of five equal parts of a whole
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fifth gear — see fifth gear
quantity of liquor
musical interval
Verb
[edit]fifth (third-person singular simple present fifths, present participle fifthing, simple past and past participle fifthed)
- (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
- 1996, Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing[1], page 510:
- Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
- 1978, Discant and the Theory of Fifthing[2]:
- Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
- (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
- 2017, Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey[3]:
- Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
- (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.
- 2006, Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia[4], page 188:
- 3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *pénkʷe
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
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- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms suffixed with -th
- English 1-syllable words
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