fift

English

Numeral

fift

1. Obsolete spelling of fifth.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎^[1], Samuel Simmons, lines 447–449:

     With Fiſh repleniſht, and the Aire with Fowle, / Ev’ning and Morn solemniz’d the Fift day, / The Sixt, and of Creation laſt arose […]

Anagrams

• TIFF, Tiff, tiff

Middle English

Adjective

fift

1. Alternative form of fifte

Scots

Scots numbers ^(edit)

←  4	5	6  →
Cardinal: five     Ordinal: fift

Etymology

From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô.

Adjective

fift

1. fifth

References

• “fift, a.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “fift, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.