English Explanatory Dictionary

fifth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. The ordinal form of the number five.
noun
  1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
  2. The fifth gear of a transmission.
  3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
  4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
  5. The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
  6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
verb
  1. To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
  2. To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
  3. To divide by five.
name
  1. The Fifth Amendment.
  2. The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
  3. Fifth Avenue.
  4. Fifth Street.

Pronunciation

fĭfth /fɪfθ/ en-us-fifth.ogg fĭth /fɪθ/ en-US fifth (informal).ogg fĭft /fɪft/

Word forms

fifth fift fiveth fifths fifthing fifthed

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

5th Vth V. V ⅕

Related words

take the Fifth plead the Fifth

Derived words

Fifth Amendment fifth base fifth column fifth cousin fifth cranial nerve Fifth Cycle fifth-day fits fifth disease fifth estate fifth force fifth freedom rights fifth gear fifth grade fifthly Fifth Month fifth nerve fifthness fifth normal form fifth position fifth quarter fifth-rate fifth rate fifth slip Fifth Sun fifth wall fifth wheel Fifth World plead the fifth Revenge of the Fifth seventy-fifth augmented fifth diminished fifth flatted fifth perfect fifth take the fifth typhoon fifth

Translations

Armenian: հինգերորդ Asturian: quintu Basque: bosgarren Bulgarian: пети Danish: den femte Finnish: viides French: cinquième German: Fünfte Hungarian: ötödik Interlingua: quinto Interlingua: quinta Italian: quinto Italian: quinta Latgalian: pīkts Latgalian: pīkta Latgalian: pīktais Latgalian: pīktuo Latin: quintus Latvian: piektais Latvian: piektā Lithuanian: penktas Lithuanian: penkta Portuguese: quinto Portuguese: quinta Romanian: al cincilea Romanian: a cincea Scots: fift Swedish: femte Swedish: femma Turkish: beşinci Walloon: cénkinme
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