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twentieth

Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/

The English word “twentieth” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. The ordinal form of the number twenty.

noun

  1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.
  2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

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…

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