ninth
English
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Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Collective: ninesome Multiuse collective: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Greek prefix: enato- Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium |
Etymology
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) enPR: nīnth, IPA(key): /naɪnθ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnθ
Translations
ordinal form of nine — See also translations at 9th
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Noun
ninth (plural ninths)
- The person or thing in the ninth position.
- One of nine equal parts of a whole.
- (music) The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
Translations
something in the ninth position
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one of nine equal parts of a whole
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Verb
ninth (third-person singular simple present ninths, present participle ninthing, simple past and past participle ninthed)
- To lose a ninth.
- 1973 Herakles on Thasos, page 79
- οὐ[δ̓] ὲνατεὐεται, should be translated “a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)”, “no tithing” (literally, “a ninth is not given”, “no ninth-ing”, if I may coin such a word).
- 2010 Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene page 161
- A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios
- 1973 Herakles on Thasos, page 79
- To divide by nine.
- 2014 Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley
- THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.
- 2014 Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley
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