twentieth

twentieth

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		200
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		2
Cardinal: twenty     Ordinal: twentieth     Adverbial: twenty times     Multiplier: twentyfold

Etymology

From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty +‎ -eth.

Etymological notes

twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as contractions of twentieth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtwɛn.(t)i.əθ/, [ˈtw̥ɛ.ɾ̃i.əθ], (dated) /-ɪθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtwɛn.(t)i.əθ/

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• Hyphenation: twen‧ti‧eth

Adjective

twentieth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number twenty.

Abbreviations

• 20th, 20^th; (in names of monarchs and popes) XX

Derived terms

• short twentieth century

Translations

ordinal form of twenty — See also translations at 20th

Afrikaans: twintigste (af) Albanian: njëzetë (sq) Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord) Azerbaijani: iyirminci Basque: hogeigarren Belarusian: двацца́ты (dvaccáty) Bengali: বিংশ (biṅśô) Bulgarian: двадесети (dvadeseti) Buryat: хоридохи (xoridoxi) Catalan: vintè (ca), vigèsim Chichewa: chamakumi awiri Chinese: Mandarin: 第二十 (zh) (dì èrshí) Crimean Tatar: yigirminci Czech: dvacátý (cs) Danish: tyvende (da) Dutch: twintigste (nl) Esperanto: dudeka Estonian: kahekümnes Ewe: blaevelia n Faroese: tjúgundi Finnish: kahdeskymmenes (fi) French: vingtième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) vingt (after the name) Georgian: მეოცე (meoce) German: zwanzigste (de) Greek: εικοστός (el) (eikostós) Ancient: εἰκοστός (eikostós) Greenlandic: tyviat Haitian Creole: ventyèm Hindi: बिसवां (bisvā̃) Hungarian: huszadik (hu) Icelandic: tuttugasta Indonesian: keduapuluh Ingrian: kakskymmenäs Interlingua: vintesime, vigesime Irish: fichiú Italian: ventesimo (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) ventesimo m, ventesima f (after the name) (abbreviation XX) Japanese: 第二十 (dai nijū) Kazakh: жиырмасыншы (jiyrmasynşy) Khakas: чибіргінӌі (çibìrgìncì) Korean: 스무째 (ko) (seumujjae) Kyrgyz: жыйырманчы (ky) (jıyırmançı) Lakota: iwikcemna nuŋpa Latin: vīcēsimus (la) Latvian: divdesmitais Lithuanian: dvidešimtas (lt) Luxembourgish: zwanzegst Macedonian: два́есетти (dváesetti) Malay: kedua puluh Malayalam: ഇരുപതാം (irupatāṃ), ഇരുപതാമത്തെ (irupatāmatte) Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠴᡳ (orici) Manx: feedoo Navajo: naadíín góneʼ Northern Sami: guoktelogát Norwegian: tjuende (no) Occitan: vinten Old English: twēntigoþa Persian: بیستم‎ (fa) (bīstom) Polish: dwudziesty (pl) Portuguese: vigésimo (pt) Romanian: douăzecilea (ro) Russian: двадца́тый (ru) (dvadcátyj) Scottish Gaelic: ficheadamh Serbo-Croatian: dvadeseti (sh) Shor: чегирбенчи Slovak: dvadsiaty (sk) Spanish: vigésimo (es), veinteno (es) Swahili: ishirini (sw) Swedish: tjugonde (sv) Tagalog: ikadalawampu Tajik: бистум (bistum) Tatar: егерменче (egermençe) Thai: ที่ยี่สิบ (tîi-yîi-sìp) Turkish: yirminci (tr) Ukrainian: двадця́тий (uk) (dvadcjátyj) Uzbek: yigirmanchi (uz) Vietnamese: thứ hai mươi Yiddish: צוואַנציקסט‎ (tsvantsikst)

Noun

twentieth (plural twentieths)

1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.
2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:

     There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.

Translations

ordinal object

Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord) Finnish: kahdeskymmenes (fi) French: vingtième (fr) m or f Hungarian: huszadik (hu) Interlingua: vintesimo m, vigesimo m, vintesima f, vigesima f Italian: ventesimo (it) m, ventesima f Macedonian: дваесетка f (dvaesetka) Manx: yn feedoo m Old English: twēntigoþa Portuguese: vigésimo (pt) m, vigésima f Spanish: vigésimo (es) Turkish: yirminci (tr)

portion of whole

Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord) Catalan: vintè (ca) m Finnish: kahdeskymmenesosa French: vingtième (fr) m Georgian: მეოცედი (meocedi) Hungarian: huszad (hu) Interlingua: vintesimo, vigesimo Italian: ventesimo (it) m Macedonian: дваесеттина f (dvaesettina) Old English: twēntigoþa dǣl Portuguese: vigésimo (pt) m Russian: (одна) двадцатая (часть) ((odna) dvadcataja (častʹ)) Spanish: veinteavo (es), vigésimo (es) Swedish: tjugondedel (sv) c, tjugondel (sv) c Yiddish: צוואַנציקסטל‎ n (tsvantsikstl)