ninth

English

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Cardinal: nine     Ordinal: ninth     Latinate ordinal: nonary     Adverbial: nine times     Multiplier: ninefold     Latinate multiplier: nonuple     Germanic collective: ninesome     Collective of n parts: 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 nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nīnth, IPA^(key): /naɪnθ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnθ

Adjective

ninth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number nine.

Synonyms

• 9th, (in names of monarchs and popes) IX

Translations

ordinal form of nine — see also 9th

• Afrikaans: negende (af)
• Albanian: nëntë (sq)
• Arabic: تَاسِع m (tāsiʕ), تَاسِعَة f (tāsiʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic: تاسع (tāsiʿ)

• Armenian: իններորդ (hy) (innerord)
• Asturian: novenu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: doqquzuncu
• Bashkir: туғыҙынсы (tuğıźınsı)
• Basque: bederatzigarren (eu)
• Belarusian: дзявя́ты (dzjavjáty)
• Bengali: নবম (nobom)
• Breton: navvet (br)
• Bulgarian: деве́ти (devéti)
• Burmese: နဝမ (my) (na.wa.ma.)
• Buryat: юһэдэхи (juhedexi)
• Catalan: novè (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第九 (zh) (dìjiǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: doquzıncı
• Czech: devátý (cs)
• Danish: niende (da)
• Dutch: negende (nl)
• Esperanto: naŭa (eo)
• Estonian: üheksas
• Evenki: егӣ (jegī)
• Faroese: níggjundi
• Finnish: yhdeksäs (fi)
• French: neuvième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) neuf (fr) (after the name) (abbreviation IX)

  Old French: neufyesme

• Gagauz: dokuzuncu
• Galician: noveno (gl), nono (gl)
• Georgian: მეცხრე (mecxre)
• German: neunte (de)
• Greek: ένατος (el) (énatos)

  Ancient: ἔνατος (énatos)

• Greenlandic: qulingiluaat
• Hawaiian: iwa
• Hebrew: תשיעי (tshi'i)
• Hindi: नवां (navā̃)
• Hungarian: kilencedik (hu)
• Icelandic: níggjundi
• Ido: nonesma (io)
• Indonesian: kesembilan (id)
• Interlingua: none
• Irish: naoú
• Italian: nono (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) nono, (after the name) (abbreviation IX)
• Japanese: 九番目 (きゅうばんめ, kyūban-me)
• Kalmyk: йисдгч (yisdgç)
• Kazakh: тоғызыншы (toğyzynşy)
• Khakas: тоғызынӌы (toğızıncı)
• Khmer: ទីប្រាំបួន (tii pram buən)
• Korean: 아홉째 (ko) (ahopjjae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: тогузунчу (ky) (toguzuncu)
• Lao: ທີ່ເກົ້າ (thī kao)
• Latgalian: deveits
• Latin: nonus (la)
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• Latvian: devītais
• Lithuanian: devintas (lt)
• Macedonian: деветти (devetti)
• Malagasy: fahasivy (mg)
• Malay: kesembilan (ms)
• Maltese: id-disa’
• Manchu: [script needed] (uyuci)
• Manx: nuyoo
• Maori: tuaiwa, te iwa
• Mongolian: есдүгээр (jesdügeer), есдэх (jesdex)
• Navajo: náhástʼéí góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: njüügenst

  Helgoland: neägens

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: niende (no)

  Nynorsk: niande

• Occitan: noven (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: девѧтъ (devętŭ)
• Persian: نهم (fa) (nohom)
• Polish: dziewiąty (pl)
• Portuguese: nono (pt)
• Romanian: nouălea (ro)
• Russian: девя́тый (ru) m (devjátyj)
• Rusyn: девя́тый (devjátŷj)
• Scottish Gaelic: naoidheamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: девети

  Roman: deveti (sh)

• Shor: тоғузынчы
• Sinhalese: නවවැනි (nawawæni)
• Skolt Sami: ååucad
• Slovak: deviaty (sk)
• Slovene: deveti (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źewjety

  Upper Sorbian: dźewjaty (hsb)

• Southern Altai: тогузынчы (toguzïnčï)
• Spanish: noveno (es), nono (es)
• Swahili: ya tisa
• Swedish: nionde (sv)
• Tagalog: ikasiyam
• Tajik: нуҳум (nuhum)
• Tatar: тугызынчы (tuğızınçı)
• Thai: ที่เก้า (tîi-gâo)
• Turkish: dokuzuncu (tr)
• Turkmen: dokuzynjy
• Ukrainian: дев'я́тий (uk) (devʺjátyj)
• Urdu: نواں (navā̃)
• Uzbek: toʻqqizinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ chín
• Volapük: zülid (vo)
• Welsh: nawfed (cy)
• West Frisian: njoggende
• Yakut: тохсус (toqsus)
• Yiddish: נײַנט (naynt)

Noun

ninth (plural ninths)

1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).

Translations

something in the ninth position

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: تاسع m, تاسعة f, táseɛ m, tasɛa f

• Armenian: իններորդ (hy) (innerord)
• Basque: bederatzigarren (eu)
• Catalan: novè (ca) m, novena (ca) f
• Czech: devátý (cs) m
• Dutch: negende (nl)
• Estonian: üheksas
• Finnish: yhdeksäs (fi)
• French: neuvième (fr) m or f

  Old French: neufyesme

• German: Neunter (de)
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• Hungarian: kilencedik (hu)
• Interlingua: nono m, nona f
• Italian: nono (it) m, nona (it) f
• Latin: nonus (la)
• Lithuanian: devintas (lt) m, devinta f
• Maori: tuaiwa
• Portuguese: nono (pt) m, nona (pt) f
• Romanian: cel al nouălea m, cea a noua f
• Serbo-Croatian: deveti (sh)
• Spanish: noveno (es) m, novena (es) f
• Swedish: nia (sv) c
• Turkish: dokuzuncu (tr)
• Vietnamese: phần chín

one of nine equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: تُسْع m (tusʕ)

  Egyptian Arabic: تُسع m, واحد على تسعة m, tosɛ m, wáħed ɛala tesɛa m

• Armenian: իններորդ (hy) (innerord)
• Asturian: novenu (ast) m
• Catalan: novè (ca) m
• Czech: devítina (cs) f
• Esperanto: naŭono
• Finnish: yhdeksäsosa, yhdeksännes
• French: neuvième (fr) m

  Old French: neufyesme

• Galician: noveno (gl) m
• Georgian: მეცხრედი (mecxredi)
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• German: Neuntel
• Hawaiian: hapaiwa
• Hungarian: kilenced (hu)
• Interlingua: nono m
• Italian: nono (it) m
• Latin: nonum n
• Lithuanian: devintadalis m
• Maori: hauiwa
• Portuguese: nono (pt) m
• Spanish: noveno (es)
• Swedish: niondel (sv) c
• Yiddish: נײַנטל n (nayntl)

musical interval

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• Hungarian: nóna

Verb

ninth (third-person singular simple present ninths, present participle ninthing, simple past and past participle ninthed)

1. to lose a ninth
   • 1973 Herakles on Thasos, page 79

     £vateueTai, should be translated "a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)", "no tithing" (literally, "a ninth is not given", "no ninth-ing", if I may coin such a word).

   • 2010 Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene page 161

     A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios

2. to divide by nine
   • 2014 Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley

     THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.