fifth
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English
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| Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Germanic collective: fivesome Collective of n parts: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek or Latinate collective: pentad Greek collective prefix: penta- Latinate collective prefix: quinque- Fractional: fifth Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek prefix: pempto- Number of musicians: quintet Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
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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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, standard) enPR: fĭfth, IPA(key): /fɪfθ/
- (UK, US, informal) enPR: fĭth, IPA(key): /fɪθ/
- (UK, US, dialectal) enPR: fĭft, IPA(key): /fɪft/
- Rhymes: -ɪft
Adjective
fifth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number five.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Fifth Amendment
- fifth base
- fifth column
- fifth cousin
- fifth cranial nerve
- Fifth Cycle
- fifth-day fits
- fifth disease
- fifth force
- fifth freedom rights
- fifth gear
- fifth grade
- fifth nerve
- fifthness
- fifth normal form
- fifth position
- fifth quarter
- fifth rate
- fifth-rate
- fifth slip
- fifth wall
- fifth wheel
- Fifth World
- plead the fifth
- seventy-fifth
Translations
Ordinal form of the number 5 — see also 5th
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Noun
fifth (plural fifths)
- (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
- (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
- (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a 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.
Synonyms
- (one of five equal parts): ⅕
Derived terms
Translations
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
Verb
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.
- (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.