ninefold

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    Cardinal: nine
    Ordinal: ninth
    Latinate ordinal: nonary
    Adverbial: nine times
    Multiplier: ninefold
    Latinate multiplier: nonuple
    Group collective: ninesome
    Multipart 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 *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine +‎ -fold.

Adjective

ninefold (not comparable)

  1. Having nine times as much or as many.
  2. Having nine parts.
    • 1872, Palmer Boyd, transl., Nágánanda, act III, page 46:
      If so, where is your ninefold thread?

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Adverb

ninefold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of nine.

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