fifth

See also Fifth

English

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English ordinal numbers

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Ordinal : fifth     Cardinal : five

Alternative forms

• fift (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *femftô (“fifth”), 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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, standard) IPA: /fɪfθ/, X-SAMPA: /fIfT/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪfθ
• (UK, US, informal or dialectal) IPA: /fɪθ/, X-SAMPA: /fIT/
• Rhymes: -ɪθ

Adjective

fifth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number five.

Synonyms

• 5th; (in names of monarchs and popes) V

Translations

Ordinal form of the number 5

• Afrikaans: vyfde (af)
• Albanian: pestë (sq)
• Arabic: خامس (ar) (xāmis) m
• Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord)
• Asturian: quintu (ast)
• Azeri: beşinci (az)
• Basque: bosgarren (eu)
• Belarusian: пяты (be) (pjáty) m
• Bengali: পঞ্চম (bn) (pôncôm)
• Breton: pempvet
• Bulgarian: пети (bg) (péti) m
• Burmese: ပဉ္စမ (my) (pjin sa̱ma.)
• Catalan: cinquè (ca) m (abbreviation 5è), quint (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第五 (cmn) (dìwǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: beşinci
• Czech: pátý (cs) m (abbreviation 5.)
• Dalmatian: cincto
• Danish: femte (da) (abbreviation 5.)
• Dutch: vijfde (abbreviations 5de, 5e)
• Esperanto: kvina (eo)
• Estonian: viies (et)
• Faroese: fimti (fo)
• Finnish: viides (fi)
• French: cinquième (fr) (before the noun) (abbreviation 5^ème); (in names of monarchs and popes) cinq (after the name) (abbreviation V)
• Galician: quinto (gl)
• Georgian: მეხუთე (ka) (mexut'e)
• German: fünfter (de) m (abbreviation 5.)
• Greek: πέμπτος (el) (pémptos) m (abbreviation: 5^ος m, 5^η f, 5^ο n; Greek numeral system: Ε΄, ε΄)
• Hawaiian: lima
• Hebrew: חמישי (he) (khamishí) m, חמישית (he) (khamishít) f
• Hindi: पांचवां (hi) (pāñcvā̃)
• Hungarian: ötödik (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmti (is) m, fimmta (is) f and n
• Ido: kinesma (io)
• Inari Sami: viiđâd
• Indonesian: kelima (abbreviation ke-5)
• Interlingua: quinte (abbreviation 5^e)
• Irish: cúigiú (abbreviation 5ú)
• Italian: quinto m, quinta f (before the noun) (abbreviations 5º m, 5ª f); (in names of monarchs and popes) quinto m, quinta f (after the name) (abbreviation V)
• Japanese: 五番目 (ja) (ごばんめ, goban-me)
• Kazakh: бесінші (kk) (besinşi)
• Khmer: ទីប្រាំ (km) (tii pram)

• Korean: 다섯째 (ko) (daseosjjae)
• Kyrgyz: бешинчи (ky) (beşinçi)
• Lao: ທີ່ຫ້າ (lo) (tʰī̀ hā́)
• Latin: quintus (la)
• Latvian: piektais (lv) m, piektā (lv) f
• Lithuanian: penktas (lt) m, penkta (lt) f
• Macedonian: петти (mk) (pétti) m
• Malay: kelima (ms)
• Maltese: il-ħames
• Manchu: (sunjaci)
• Manx: queiggoo (abbreviation 5oo)
• Mongolian: тавдугаар (mn) (tavdugaar)
• Navajo: ashdlaʼ góneʼ
• Norwegian: femte (no) (abbreviation 5.)
• Persian: پنجم (fa) (panjom)
• Polish: piąty (pl) m
• Portuguese: quinto m, quinta f (abbreviations 5ºm, 5ªf)
• Romanian: cincilea (ro) m, cincea (ro) f
• Russian: пятый (ru) (pjátyj) m, (abbreviation) 5-ый (ru) (5-yj)
• Sanskrit: पञ्चमः (sa) (pañcamaḥ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còigeamh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пети (sh) m

  Roman: peti (sh) m

• Sinhalese: පස්‍වෙනි (si) (pasveni)
• Skolt Sami: viiđad
• Slovak: piaty (sk) m
• Slovene: pêti (sl)
• Spanish: quinto (es)
• Swahili: ya tano (sw)
• Swedish: femte (sv) (abbreviation 5:e)
• Tagalog: ikalima (tl)
• Tajik: панҷум (tg) (panjum)
• Tatar: бишенче (tt) (bişençe)
• Thai: ที่ห้า (th) (têe hâa)
• Turkish: beşinci (abbreviations 5'inci, 5.)
• Turkmen: bäşinji (tk)
• Ukrainian: п'ятий (uk) (p’játyj) m
• Urdu: پانچواں (ur) (pāñcvā̃)
• Uyghur: بەشىنچى (ug) (beshinchi)
• Uzbek: beshinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ năm (vi)
• Volapük: lulid (vo)
• Welsh: pumed (abbreviation 5ed)
• West Frisian: fyfde (abbreviation 5e)
• Yiddish: פֿינפֿט (yi) (finft)

Noun

fifth (plural fifths)

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. One of five equal parts of a whole.
3. The fifth gear of an engine.
4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
5. The musical interval between one note and another five tones higher.
6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Synonyms

• (one of five equal parts): ⅕

Translations

person or thing in the fifth position

• Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord)
• Asturian: quintu (ast) m
• Basque: bosgarren (eu)
• Bulgarian: пети (bg) (peti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第五 (cmn) (dìwǔ)

• Danish: den femte (da) c
• Finnish: viides (fi)
• French: cinquième (fr) m and f
• German: Fünfte (de)
• Interlingua: quinto m, quinta f

• Italian: quinto (it) m, quinta (it) f
• Latgalian: pīkts m, pīkta f, pīktais m, pīktuo f
• Latin: quintus (la)
• Latvian: piektais (lv) m, piektā (lv) f
• Lithuanian: penktas (lt) m, penkta (lt) f
• Portuguese: quinto (pt) m, quinta (pt) f
• Romanian: cel al cincilea m, cea a cincea f
• Swedish: (den) femte (sv) c
• Turkish: beşinci (tr)
• Walloon: cénkinme (wa) m and f

one of five equal parts of a whole

• Armenian: հինգերորդ (hy) (hingerord)
• Asturian: quintu (ast) m
• Bulgarian: една пета (bg) (edna peta) f
• Catalan: cinquè (ca) m, quint (ca) m
• Czech: pětina (cs) f
• Esperanto: kvinono (eo)
• Finnish: viidennes, viidesosa
• French: cinquième (fr) m
• Galician: quinto (gl) m
• German: Fünftel (de) n

• Greek: πέμπτο n
• Hawaiian: hapalima
• Interlingua: quinto
• Italian: quinto (it) m
• Latvian: piektdaļa (lv) f, piektā daļa (lv) f
• Lithuanian: penktadalis (lt) m
• Portuguese: quinto (pt) m
• Spanish: quinto (es) m
• Swedish: femtedel (sv) c
• Walloon: cénkinme (wa) m

fifth gear — see fifth gear

quantity of liquor

musical interval

• Bulgarian: квинта (bg) (kvinta) f
• Catalan: quinta (ca) f
• Dutch: kwint (nl) m and f
• Finnish: kvintti (fi)

• French: quinte (fr) f
• German: Quinte (de) f
• Swedish: kvint (sv) c

Related terms

• Fifth Amendment
• fifth gear
• fifth wheel
• take the Fifth