fifth

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

The ordinal form of the number five.

Noun

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. (ellipsis) The person or thing in the fifth position.
3. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
4. (US) 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. (informal, transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
3. (nonstandard, transitive) To divide by five.

Conceptos

quinto

5th

quinta

cinco

5

quinta parte

Sinónimos

fifth part

one-fifth

5th

five

quint

in the fifth place

twenty percent

fifthly

wretchedness

squalor

superfluous

extraneous

the fourth

poverty

slumminess

Traducciones

cinquième

5th

quinto

5th

fünfte

5th

vijfde

5th

quinto

5th

cinquè

5th

πέμπτος

quintus

5th

quinta

fünfter

quinta

Quinte

Fünftel

5th

beşinci

5th

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɪfθ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: fifthe

Heredado de inglés antiguo: fīfta

Cognado con escocés: fift

Cognado con frisón septentrional: fyfde

Cognado con frisón occidental: fyfde

Cognado con neerlandés: vijfde

Cognado con bajo alemán: fifte

Cognado con alemán: fünfte

Cognado con danés: femte

Cognado con sueco: femte

Cognado con islandés: fimmta

In summary

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”).

Oraciones

A ritzy limousine was driving along the fifth avenue .

Una limusina ritzada conducía a lo largo de la Quinta Avenida.