fifth
See also: Fifth
EnglishEdit
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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 formsEdit
- fift (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
| PIE word |
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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”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, US, standard) enPR: fĭfth, IPA(key): /fɪfθ/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪfθ
- (UK, US, informal or dialectal) enPR: fĭth, IPA(key): /fɪθ/
Audio (US, informal) (file)
- (UK, US, dialectal) enPR: fĭft, IPA(key): /fɪft/
- Rhymes: -ɪθ
AdjectiveEdit
fifth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number five.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Ordinal form of the number 5 — See also translations at 5th
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NounEdit
fifth (plural fifths)
- The person or thing in the fifth position.
- One of five equal parts of a whole.
- The fifth gear of an engine.
- A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- (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
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
SynonymsEdit
- (one of five equal parts): ⅕
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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
VerbEdit
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 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.
- 1996 Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing page 510
- (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.”
- 2017 Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey
- (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
- 2006 Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia page 188