fifth

fifth

See also: Fifth

English

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Cardinal: five     Ordinal: fifth     Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary     Adverbial: five times     Multiplier: fivefold     Latinate multiplier: quintuple     Distributive: quintuply     Collective: fivesome     Multiuse 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

• fift (obsolete)

Etymology

PIE word
*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

• (UK, US, standard) enPR: fĭfth, IPA^(key): /fɪfθ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪfθ
• (UK, US, informal or dialectal) enPR: fĭth, IPA^(key): /fɪθ/

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• (UK, US, dialectal) enPR: fĭft, IPA^(key): /fɪft/
• Rhymes: -ɪθ

Adjective

fifth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number five.

Synonyms

• 5th, Vth; (in names of monarchs and popes) V, V.

Derived terms

• Fifth Amendment
• fifth base
• fifth column
• fifth cousin
• fifth cranial nerve
• fifth-day fits
• fifth disease
• fifth freedom rights
• fifth gear
• fifth grade
• fifth nerve
• fifthness
• fifth normal form
• fifth quarter
• fifth rate
• fifth-rate
• fifth slip
• fifth wall
• fifth wheel
• plead the fifth
• seventy-fifth

 

Translations

Ordinal form of the number 5 — See also translations at 5th

Afrikaans: vyfde (af) Albanian: pestë (sq) Arabic: خَامِس‎ m (ḵāmis), خَامِسَة‎ f (ḵāmisa) Egyptian Arabic: خامس‎ (ḵāmis) Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord) Asturian: quintu (ast) Azerbaijani: beşinci Bashkir: бишенсе (bişense) Basque: bosgarren (eu) Belarusian: пя́ты (pjáty) Bengali: পঞ্চম (pôñcômô) Breton: pempvet (br) Bulgarian: пе́ти (bg) (péti) Burmese: ပဉ္စမ (my) (panyca.ma.) Buryat: табадахи (tabadaxi) Catalan: cinquè (ca), quint (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 第五 (zh) (dìwǔ) Chuukese: animuen Classical Nahuatl: ic mācuīlli Crimean Tatar: beşinci Czech: pátý (cs) Dalmatian: cincto Danish: femte (da) Dutch: vijfde (nl) Esperanto: kvina (eo) Estonian: viies Evenki: тунӈӣ (tunŋī) Faliscan: cuicto (cuicto) Faroese: fimti Finnish: viides (fi) French: cinquième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) cinq (after the name) (abbreviation V) Gagauz: beşinci Galician: quinto (gl) Georgian: მეხუთე (mexute) German: fünfte (de) Greek: πέμπτος (el) (pémptos) Ancient: πέμπτος (pémptos) Hawaiian: lima Hebrew: חמישי‎ m (khamishí), חמישית‎ (he) f (khamishít) Hindi: पांचवां (pāñcvā̃), पाँचवाँ (hi) (pā̃cvā̃), पाँचवां (pā̃cvā̃), पंचम (hi) (pañcam), पंजवी (hi) (pañjvī), पंजुम (hi) (pañjum) Hungarian: ötödik (hu) Icelandic: fimmti Ido: kinesma (io) Inari Sami: viiđâd Indonesian: kelima (id) Ingrian: viijes Interlingua: quinte Irish: cúigiú Italian: quinto (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) quinto m, quinta f (after the name) (abbreviation V) Japanese: 五番目 (ごばんめ, goban-me) Kalmyk: тавдгч (tavdgch) Kazakh: бесінші (besınşı) Khakas: пизінӌі (pizìncì) Khmer: ទីប្រាំ (tii pram) Korean: 다섯째 (ko) (daseotjjae) Kyrgyz: бешинчи (ky) (beşinçi) Lao: ທີ່ຫ້າ (thī hā) Latin: quintus (la) Latvian: piektais Ligurian: quìnto Lithuanian: penktas (lt) Macedonian: петти (petti) Malay: kelima (ms) Malayalam: അഞ്ചാം (ml) (añcāṃ) Maltese: il-ħames Manchu: (sunjaci) Manx: queiggoo Maori: tuarima, te rima Middle English: fifte Mongolian: тавдугаар (tavdugaar), тавдахь (tavdaxʹ) Navajo: ashdlaʼ góneʼ North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: füft Helgoland: füfs Sylt: fifst Northern Sami: viđát Norwegian: femte (no) Occitan: quint, cinquen (oc) Old Church Slavonic: пѧтъ (pętŭ) Old Frisian: fīfta Old Prussian: kettwirts Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐰾𐰨‎ (béšinč) Oromo: shanaad Ottoman Turkish: بشنجی‎ (beşinci) Pali: pañcama Pennsylvania German: fimft Persian: پنجم‎ (fa) (panjom) Plautdietsch: fefta Polish: piąty (pl) Portuguese: quinto (pt) Romanian: cincilea (ro) Russian: пя́тый (ru) m (pjátyj), (abbreviation) 5-ый (5-yj) Rusyn: пя́тый (pjátŷj) Sanskrit: पञ्चमः (sa) (pañcamaḥ) Scots: fift Scottish Gaelic: còigeamh Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пети Roman: peti (sh) Shor: пежинчи Sinhalese: පස්‍වෙනි (pasweni) Skolt Sami: viiđad Slovak: piaty (sk) Slovene: pêti (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: pěty Upper Sorbian: pjaty Southern Altai: бежинчи (bežinči) Spanish: quinto (es) Swahili: ya tano Swedish: femte (sv) (abbreviation 5:e (sv)) Tagalog: ikalima, panlima Tajik: панҷум (tg) (panjum) Tatar: бишенче (bişençe) Thai: ที่ห้า (tîi-hâa) Tocharian B: piṅkte Turkish: beşinci (tr) Turkmen: bäşinji Ukrainian: п'я́тий (uk) (pʺjátyj) Urdu: پانچواں‎ (pāñcvā̃) Uyghur: بەشىنچى‎ (beshinchi) Uzbek: beshinchi (uz) Vietnamese: thứ năm (vi) Volapük: lulid (vo) Votic: viijjez Welsh: pumed (cy) West Frisian: fyfte (fy) Yakut: бэһис (behis) Yiddish: פֿינפֿט‎ (finft)

Noun

fifth (plural fifths)

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. One of five equal parts of a whole.
3. The fifth gear of an engine.
4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
5. (music) The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor 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

6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Synonyms

• (one of five equal parts): ⅕

Derived terms

• augmented fifth
• diminished fifth
• flatted fifth
• perfect fifth
• plead the Fifth
• take the fifth
• typhoon fifth

 

Translations

person or thing in the fifth position

Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord) Asturian: quintu (ast) m Basque: bosgarren (eu) Bulgarian: пети (bg) (peti) Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 第五 (zh) (dìwǔ) Danish: den femte (da) c Finnish: viides (fi) French: cinquième (fr) m or f German: Fünfte (de) Hungarian: ötödik (hu) Interlingua: quinto m, quinta f Italian: quinto (it) m, quinta (it) f Latgalian: pīkts m, pīkta f, pīktais m, pīktuo f Latin: quintus (la) Latvian: piektais m, piektā f Lithuanian: penktas (lt) m, penkta f Portuguese: quinto (pt) m, quinta (pt) f Romanian: cel al cincilea m, cea a cincea f Scots: fift Swedish: (den) femte (sv) c, femma (sv) c Turkish: beşinci (tr) Walloon: cénkinme (wa) m or f

one of five equal parts of a whole

Arabic: خُمْس‎ m (ḵums) Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord) Asturian: quintu (ast) m Bulgarian: една пета f (edna peta) Catalan: cinquè (ca) m, quint (ca) m Czech: pětina (cs) f Dutch: vijfde (nl) n Esperanto: kvinono Estonian: viiendik Finnish: viidennes (fi), viidesosa French: cinquième (fr) m Galician: quinto (gl) m Georgian: მეხუთედი (mexutedi) German: Fünftel (de) n Greek: πέμπτο (el) n (pémpto) Hawaiian: hapalima Hindi: पंजवी (hi) (pañjvī) Hungarian: ötöd (hu) Interlingua: quinto Italian: quinto (it) m Latvian: piektdaļa f, piektā daļa f Lithuanian: penktadalis m Maori: haurima Norwegian: Bokmål: femdel m, femtedel m Nynorsk: femdel m, femtedel m Pennsylvania German: Fimfdel n Persian: پنجیک‎ (panǰyek), پنج‌یک‎ (panǰ-yek) Portuguese: quinto (pt) m Romanian: cincime (ro) f Russian: (одна) пятая (часть) ((odna) pjataja (častʹ)) Spanish: quinto (es) m Swedish: femtedel (sv) c Tagalog: kalima, sangkalima Walloon: cénkinme (wa) m Yiddish: פֿינפֿטל‎ n (finftl)

fifth gear — see fifth gear

quantity of liquor

musical interval

Afrikaans: kwint Bulgarian: квинта f (kvinta) Catalan: quinta (ca) f Czech: kvinta (cs) f Dutch: kwint (nl) m or f Finnish: kvintti (fi) French: quinte (fr) f German: Quinte (de) f Hungarian: kvint Norwegian: Bokmål: kvint m Nynorsk: kvint m Swedish: kvint (sv) c

Verb

fifth (third-person singular simple present fifths, present participle fifthing, simple past and past participle fifthed)

1. (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
   • 1996 Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing 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

     Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.

2. (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

     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.”

3. (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.
   • 2006 Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia 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