ninefold
English
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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)
- having nine parts
- 1872, Palmer Boyd (transl.), Nágánanda, Act III, page 46
- If so, where is your ninefold thread?
- 1872, Palmer Boyd (transl.), Nágánanda, Act III, page 46
- having nine times as much or as many
Adverb
ninefold (not comparable)
- By a factor of nine.
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