tenth
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Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Germanic collective: tensome Collective of n parts: decuplet Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade Metric collective prefix: deca- Greek collective prefix: deca- Latinate collective prefix: deca- Fractional: tenth Metric fractional prefix: deci- Elemental: decuplet Greek prefix: decato- Number of musicians: decet Number of years: decade, decennium |
Etymology
editFrom Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, US) enPR: tĕnth, IPA(key): /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ]
- IPA(key): /tɪnθ/ (pin–pen merger)
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnθ; (pin–pen merger) -ɪnθ
Adjective
edittenth (not comparable)
- The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
- a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language[1], 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 221:
- My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Substance of the Shadow”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 214:
- These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
- Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:
- The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editordinal form of ten — see also 10th
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Noun
edittenth (plural tenths)
- The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
- One of ten equal parts of a whole.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
- (UK, law, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
- (machining) A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
Synonyms
edit- (one of ten parts): decim, decima, decimate, tithe, titheling, tithing (all obs.)
- (musical interval or note): decima (obs.)
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsomething in the tenth position
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a tenth; one of ten equal parts of a whole
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the interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it
Verb
edittenth (third-person singular simple present tenths, present participle tenthing, simple past and past participle tenthed)
- To divide by ten, into tenths.
- 1832, The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale[2]:
- A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
References
edit“tenth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
editAdjective
edittenth
- Alternative form of tenthe
Noun
edittenth
- Alternative form of tenthe
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