tenth

English

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Cardinal: ten     Ordinal: tenth     Latinate ordinal: denary     Adverbial: ten times     Multiplier: tenfold     Latinate multiplier: decuple     Group collective: tensome     Multipart collective: decuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade     Metric collective prefix: deca-     Greek collective prefix: deca-     Latinate collective prefix: deca-     Fractional: tenth     Metric fractional prefix: deci-     Elemental: decuplet     Greek prefix: decato-     Number of musicians: decet     Number of years: decade, decennium

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) +‎ -th (suffix forming ordinals).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: tĕnth, IPA^(key): /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ]
  • IPA^(key): /tɪnθ/ (pin–pen merger)

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• Rhymes: -ɛnθ
• Rhymes: -ɪnθ (pin–pen merger)

Adjective

tenth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Substance of the Shadow”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 214:

     These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.

2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:

     The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.

Synonyms

• 10th, 10^th
• tithe (obs.)
• (in epithets) X

Translations

ordinal form of ten — see also 10th

• Afrikaans: tiende (af)
• Albanian: dhjetë (sq)
• Arabic: عَاشِر (ʕāšir)

  Egyptian Arabic: عاشر (ʿāšir)

• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Asturian: décimu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: onuncu
• Bashkir: унынсы (unınsı)
• Basque: hamargarren (eu)
• Belarusian: дзяся́ты (dzjasjáty)
• Bengali: দশম (dośom)
• Breton: dekvet (br)
• Bulgarian: десе́ти (deséti)
• Burmese: ဒသမ (my) (da.sa.ma.)
• Buryat: арбадахи (arbadaxi)
• Catalan: desè (ca), dècim (ca)
• Cebuano: ikanapulo, ikanapo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第十 (zh) (dìshí)

• Chuvash: вуннӑмӗш (vunnămĕš)
• Crimean Tatar: onuncı
• Czech: desátý (cs)
• Dalmatian: dicto
• Danish: tiende (da)
• Dutch: tiende (nl)
• Erzya: кеменце (kemenće)
• Esperanto: deka (eo)
• Estonian: kümnes
• Faroese: tíggjundi
• Finnish: kymmenes (fi)
• French: dixième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) dix (fr) (after the name) (abbreviation X)
• Gagauz: onuncu
• Galician: décimo (gl)
• Georgian: მეათე (meate)
• German: zehnte (de)
• Greek: δέκατος (el) (dékatos)

  Ancient: δέκατος (dékatos)

• Hawaiian: ʻumi
• Hebrew: עשירי (asiri)
• Hindi: दसवां (dasvā̃)
• Hungarian: tizedik (hu)
• Icelandic: tíundi
• Ido: dekesma (io)
• Indonesian: kesepuluh (id)
• Interlingua: decime
• Irish: deichiú
• Italian: decimo (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) decimo (it) m, decima (it) f (after the name) (abbreviation X)
• Japanese: 十番目 (じゅうばんめ, jūban-me)
• Kalmyk: арвдгч (arvdgç)
• Kazakh: оныншы (onynşy)
• Khakas: онынӌы (onıncı)
• Khmer: ទីដប់ (tii dop)
• Korean: 열째 (ko) (yeoljjae)
• Kyrgyz: онунчу (ky) (onuncu)
• Lao: ທີ່ສິບ (thī sip)
• Latgalian: dasmyts
• Latin: decimus (la)
• Latvian: desmitais
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: dešimtas (lt)
• Macedonian: десетти (desetti)
• Malay: kesepuluh
• Maltese: l-għaxar
• Manchu: [script needed] (juwanci)
• Mansi:
• Manx: jeihoo
• Maori: te tekau, tuangahuru
• Mongolian: аравдүгаар (mn) (aravdügaar), аравдахь (aravdaxʹ)
• Navajo: neeznáá góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: tjiinst

  Helgoland: tains

• Norwegian: tiende (no)
• Occitan: desen (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: десѧтъ (desętŭ)
• Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰣𐰨 (onunč)
• Ottoman Turkish: اوننجی (onuncı)
• Persian: دهم (fa) (dahom)
• Polish: dziesiąty (pl)
• Portuguese: décimo (pt)
• Romanian: al zecelea m, a zecea f
• Romansch: dieschavel
• Russian: деся́тый (ru) m (desjátyj)
• Rusyn: деся́тый (desjátŷj)
• Sanskrit: दशमः (sa) (daśamaḥ)
• Scottish Gaelic: deicheamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: десети

  Roman: deseti (sh)

• Shor: онынчы
• Sinhalese: දසවෙනි (dasaweni)
• Skolt Sami: lååǥǥad
• Slovak: desiaty (sk)
• Slovene: deseti (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źasety

  Upper Sorbian: dźesaty (hsb)

• Southern Altai: онынчы (onïnčï)
• Spanish: décimo (es)
• Swahili: ya kumi
• Swedish: tionde (sv)
• Tagalog: ikasampu
• Tajik: даҳум (dahum)
• Tatar: унынчы (unınçı)
• Telugu: పదవ (te) (padava), పదో (te) (padō)
• Thai: ที่สิบ (tîi-sìp)
• Turkish: onuncu (tr)
• Turkmen: onunjy
• Ukrainian: деся́тий (uk) (desjátyj)
• Urdu: دسواں (dasvā̃)
• Uzbek: oʻninchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ mười (vi)
• Welsh: degfed (cy)
• West Frisian: tsiende
• Yakut: онус (onus)
• Yiddish: צענט (tsent)

Noun

tenth (plural tenths)

1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

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.

Synonyms

• (one of ten parts): decim, decima, decimate, tithe, titheling, tithing (all obs.)
• (musical interval or note): decima (obs.)

Translations

something in the tenth position

• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Basque: hamargarren (eu)
• Czech: desátý (cs) m
• Danish: tier c
• Esperanto: deka (eo)
• Finnish: kymmenes (fi)
• French: dixième (fr) m or f
• Galician: décimo (gl) m, décima f
• Greek: δέκατος (el) (dékatos)
• Hungarian: tizedik (hu)
• Interlingua: decimo m, decima f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: decimo (it) m, decima (it) f
• Latin: decimus (la)
• Lithuanian: dešimtas (lt) m, dešimta f
• Mandarin: 第十 (zh) (dìshí)
• Maori: tekau (mi), tuangahuru
• 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 (cy) m

a tenth; one of ten equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: عُشْر m (ʕušr)
• Armenian: տասներորդ (hy) (tasnerord)
• Asturian: décimu (ast) m
• Czech: desetina (cs) f
• Danish: tiendedel c
• Esperanto: dekono (eo)
• Finnish: kymmenesosa, kymmenennes
• French: dixième (fr) m
• Galician: décimo (gl) m
• Georgian: მეათედი (meatedi)
• Greek: δέκατο (el) n (dékato)
• Hawaiian: hapaʻumi
• Hungarian: tized (hu)
• Icelandic: tíundi m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: decimo m
• Italian: decimo (it) m, decima (it) f
• Latin: decuma f, decimum n
• Lithuanian: dešimtadalis m
• Maori: whakatekau, hautekau
• Portuguese: décimo (pt) m
• Romanian: cel al zecelea m, cea a zecea f, zecime (ro) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} деся́тая часть f (desjátaja častʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: desetina (sh) f
• Spanish: décimo (es) m
• Swedish: tiondel (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapu (tl), sangkapu
• Welsh: degymau (cy) m pl, degfed (cy)
• Yiddish: צענטל n (tsentl)

the interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: decima (hu)

Verb

tenth (third-person singular simple present tenths, present participle tenthing, simple past and past participle tenthed)

1. To divide by ten, into tenths.
   • 1832 The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale

     A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.

References

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.
(See the entry for “tenth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)