ninth

Significat

Adj

The ordinal form of the number nine.

Noun

1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
3. The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

Verb

1. To lose a ninth.
2. To divide by nine.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naɪnθ/

Etimologia

From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.

Sents

In terms of size it is the ninth largest region of the Czech Republic .