tenth

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English ordinal numbers
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    Ordinal : tenth
    Cardinal : ten

Etymology [edit]

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 [edit]

Adjective [edit]

tenth

  1. The ordinal form of the number ten.

Abbreviations [edit]

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

Translations [edit]

Noun [edit]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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See also [edit]

tithe