fifth

Senso (English)

Adj

The ordinal form of the number five.

Noun

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. The person or thing in the fifth position.
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.

Synonyms

fifth part

one-fifth

5th

five

quint

in the fifth place

twenty percent

fifthly

wretchedness

squalor

superfluous

extraneous

the fourth

poverty

slumminess

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/fɪfθ/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: fifthe

Inherited from inglese antico: fīfta

Cognate with scozzese: fift

Cognate with frisone settentrionale: fyfde

Cognate with frisone occidentale: fyfde

Cognate with olandese: vijfde

Cognate with basso tedesco: fifte

Cognate with tedesco: fünfte

Cognate with danese: femte

Cognate with svedese: femte

Cognate with islandese: 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. 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”).

Frasi

A ritzy limousine was driving along the fifth avenue .

Una limousine ritzy stava guidando lungo la Fifth Avenue.