twentieth

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

Noun

1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.
2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

Conceptos

vigésimo

20th

veinteavo

20th

veinte

20

vigésima

veinteno

20th

Sinónimos

twenty

20th

number twenty

Traducciones

vingtième

20th

ventesimo

20th

vigésimo

20th

twintigste

20th

ventesima

vigésima

vicesimus

20th

zwanzigste

20th

εικοστός

vicesimum

yirminci

20th

vintè

20th

vicesima

zwanzigstes

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: twentithe

Heredado de inglés antiguo: twēntigoþa

In summary

From earlier twenteth, twentith, from Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty + -eth.
Etymological notes
twentith, twenteth is the expected development from Middle English twentithe, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern twentieth (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of twenteth, twentith was clearly distinct from that in twenty); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of thirtieth, fourtieth, etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as carrying, which allowed twenteth, twentith to be interpreted as contractions of twentieth.