Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. · To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. · To divide by five.
The person or thing in the fifth position. · The fifth gear of a transmission. · One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth. · A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
The ordinal form of the number five.
PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). 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”).
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- Cognate mentionvijfdenl
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- Cognate mentionfünftede
- Cognate mentionfemteda
- Cognate mentionfemtesv
- Cognate mentionfimmtais
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