ninefold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: nine     Ordinal: ninth     Latinate ordinal: nonary     Adverbial: nine times     Multiplier: ninefold     Latinate multiplier: nonuple     Group collective: ninesome     Multipart collective: nonuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad     Greek collective prefix: ennea-     Latinate collective prefix: nona-     Fractional: ninth     Elemental: nonuplet     Greek prefix: enato-     Number of musicians: nonet     Number of years: novennium

Etymology

From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine +‎ -fold.

Adjective

ninefold (not comparable)

1. having nine parts
   • 1872, Palmer Boyd (transl.), Nágánanda, Act III, page 46

     If so, where is your ninefold thread?

2. having nine times as much or as many

Adverb

ninefold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of nine.

See also

• nonadic

Anagrams

• nonfelid