tenth

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Ordinal : tenth     Cardinal : ten

Etymology

From Middle English. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /tɛnθ/, X-SAMPA: /tEnT/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnθ

Adjective

tenth

1. The ordinal form of the number ten.

Abbreviations

10th, 10^th; (in names of monarchs and popes) X

Translations

ordinal form of ten

• Afrikaans: tiende (af)
• Albanian: dhjetë (sq)
• Arabic: عاشر (ar) (ʿāšir) m
• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Azeri: onuncu (az)
• Basque: hamargarren (eu)
• Belarusian: дзясяты (be) (dzjasjáty) m
• Bengali: দশম (bn) (dôshôm)
• Breton: dekvet
• Bulgarian: десети (bg) (deséti) m
• Burmese: ဒသမ (my) (da.da'tha̱ma., da.tha̱ma.)
• Catalan: desè (ca) m (abbreviation 10è), dècim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第十 (cmn) (dìshí)

• Crimean Tatar: onuncı
• Czech: desátý (abbreviation 10.)
• Dalmatian: dicto
• Danish: tiende (da) (abbreviation 10.)
• Dutch: tiende (abbreviations 10de, 10e)
• Esperanto: deka (eo)
• Estonian: kümnes (et)
• Finnish: kymmenes (abbreviation 10.)
• French: dixième (before the noun) (abbreviation 10^ème); (in names of monarchs and popes) dix (after the name) (abbreviation X)
• Georgian: მეათე (ka) (meat'e)
• German: zehnte (abbreviation 10.)
• Hawaiian: ʻumi
• Hebrew: עשירי (he) (asiri)
• Hindi: दसवां (hi) (dasvā̃)
• Hungarian: tizedik (hu)
• Icelandic: tíundi (is) m
• Ido: dekesma (io)
• Indonesian: kesepuluh (abbreviation ke-10)
• Interlingua: decime (abbreviation 10^e)
• Irish: deichiú (abbreviation 10ú)
• Italian: decimo m, decima f (before the noun) (abbreviations 10º m, 10ª f); (in names of monarchs and popes) decimo m, decima f (after the name) (abbreviation X)
• Japanese: 十番目 (ja) (じゅうばんめ, jūban-me)
• Kazakh: оныншы (kk) (onınşı)
• Khmer: ទីដប់ (km) (tii dop)
• Korean: 열째 (ko) (yeoljjae)
• Kyrgyz: онунчу (ky) (onunçu)
• Lao: ທີ່ສິບ (lo) (tʰī̀ sip)

• Latgalian: dasmyts m, dasmyta f
• Latin: decimus (la)
• Latvian: desmitais (lv)
• Lithuanian: dešimtas (lt) m, dešimta (lt) f
• Macedonian: десетти (mk) (desetti) m
• Malay: kesepuluh (ms)
• Maltese: l-għaxar
• Manchu: (juwanci)
• Manx: jeihoo (abbreviation 10oo)
• Navajo: neeznáá góneʼ
• Norwegian: tiende (no)
• Persian: دهم (fa) (dahom)
• Polish: dziesiąty m (abbreviation 10.)
• Portuguese: décimo m, décima f (abbreviations 10º m, 10ª f)
• Romanian: al zecelea m, a zecea f
• Romansch: dieschavel (rm)
• Russian: десятый (ru) (desjátyj) m, (abbreviation) 10-ый (ru) (10-yj)
• Sanskrit: दशमः (sa) (daśamaḥ)
• Scottish Gaelic: deicheamh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: десети (sh) m

  Roman: deseti (sh) m

• Sinhalese: දසවෙනි (si) (dasaveni)
• Skolt Sami: lååǥǥad
• Slovak: desiaty (sk) m
• Slovene: deseti (sl) m
• Spanish: décimo (es) m, décima (es) f
• Swahili: ya kumi (sw)
• Swedish: tionde (sv) (abbreviation 10:e)
• Tagalog: ikasampu (tl)
• Tajik: даҳум (tg) (dahum)
• Tatar: унынчы (tt) (unınçı)
• Telugu: పదవ (padava) (abbr. 10వ), పదో (padO)
• Thai: ที่สิบ (th) (têe sìp)
• Turkish: onuncu (tr) (abbreviations 10'uncu, 10.)
• Turkmen: onunjy (tk)
• Ukrainian: десятий (uk) (desjátyj) m
• Urdu: دسواں (ur) (dasvā̃)
• Uzbek: oʻninchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ mười (vi)
• Welsh: degfed (abbreviation 10ed)
• West Frisian: tsiende
• Yiddish: צענט (yi) (tsent)

Noun

tenth (plural tenths)

1. The person or thing in the tenth position.
2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
4. (UK, law, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Translations

something in the tenth position

• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Basque: hamargarren (eu)
• Czech: desátý (cs) m
• Danish: tier (da) c
• Esperanto: deka (eo)
• Finnish: kymmenes (fi)
• French: dixième (fr) m and f
• Greek: δέκατος (el) (dékatos)
• Interlingua: decimo m, decima f
• Italian: decimo (it) m, decima (it) f

• Latin: decimus (la)
• Lithuanian: dešimtas (lt) m, dešimta (lt) f
• Mandarin: 第十 (cmn) (dìshí)
• Portuguese: décimo (pt) m, décima (pt) f
• Romanian: cel al zecelea m, cea a zecea f
• Spanish: décimo (es) m, décima (es) f
• Swedish: (den) tionde (sv) c
• Turkish: onuncu (tr)
• Welsh: degwm m

one of ten equal parts of a whole

• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Czech: desetina (cs) f
• Danish: tiendedel (da) c
• Esperanto: dekono (eo)
• Finnish: kymmenesosa, kymmenennes
• French: dixième (fr) m
• Greek: δέκατο (el) (dékato) n
• Hawaiian: hapaʻumi
• Interlingua: decimo m

• Italian: decimo (it) m
• Latin: decimum (la) n
• Lithuanian: dešimtadalis (lt) m
• Portuguese: décimo (pt) m
• Romanian: cel al zecelea m, cea a zecea f, zecime (ro) f
• Spanish: décimo (es) m
• Swedish: tiondel (sv) c
• Welsh: degymau m pl

See also

tithe