twentieth

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	200
←  19	20	21  →
	2[a], [b]
Cardinal: twenty     Ordinal: twentieth     Adverbial: twenty times     Multiplier: twentyfold

Etymology

From Middle English twentithe, twentiþe, from Old English twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty +‎ -eth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwɛnti.əθ/, [ˈtw̥ɛɾ̃i.əθ], /ˈtwɛni.əθ/

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• Hyphenation: twen‧ti‧eth

Adjective

twentieth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number twenty.

Abbreviations

• 20th, 20^th; (in names of monarchs and popes) XX

Translations

ordinal form of twenty — See also translations at 20th

• Afrikaans: twintigste (af)
• Albanian: njëzetë (sq)
• Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord)
• Azerbaijani: iyirminci
• Basque: hogeigarren
• Belarusian: двацца́ты (dvaccáty)
• Bengali: বিংশ (biṅś)
• Bulgarian: двадесети (dvadeseti)
• Buryat: хоридохи (xoridoxi)
• Catalan: vintè (ca), vigèsim
• Chichewa: chamakumi awiri
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第二十 (zh) (dì èrshí)

• Crimean Tatar: yigirminci
• Czech: dvacátý (cs)
• Danish: tyvende (da)
• Dutch: twintigste (nl)
• Esperanto: dudeka
• Estonian: kahekümnes
• Ewe: blaevelia n
• Faroese: tjúgundi
• Finnish: kahdeskymmenes (fi)
• French: vingtième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) vingt (after the name)
• Georgian: მეოცე (meoce)
• German: zwanzigste (de)
• Greek: εικοστός (el) (eikostós)

  Ancient: εἰκοστός (eikostós)

• Greenlandic: tyviat
• Haitian Creole: ventyèm
• Hindi: बिसवां (bisvā̃)
• Hungarian: huszadik (hu)
• Icelandic: tuttugasta
• Indonesian: keduapuluh
• Interlingua: vintesime, vigesime
• Irish: fichiú
• Italian: ventesimo (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) ventesimo m, ventesima f (after the name) (abbreviation XX)

• Japanese: 第二十 (dai nijū)
• Kazakh: жиырмасыншы (jïırmasınşı)
• Khakas: чибіргінӌі (çibìrgìncì)
• Korean: 스무째 (ko) (seumujjae)
• Kyrgyz: жыйырманчы (ky) (jıyırmançı)
• Lakota: iwikcemna nuŋpa
• Latin: vīcēsimus
• Latvian: divdesmitais
• Lithuanian: dvidešimtas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: zwanzegst
• Macedonian: два́есетти (dváesetti)
• Malay: kedua puluh
• Malayalam: ഇരുപതാം (irupatāṃ), ഇരുപതാമത്തെ (irupatāmatte)
• Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠴᡳ (orici)
• Manx: feedoo
• Navajo: naadíín góneʼ
• Northern Sami: guoktelogát
• Norwegian: tjuende (no)
• Occitan: vinten
• Old English: twēntigoþa
• Polish: dwudziesty (pl)
• Portuguese: vigésimo (pt)
• Romanian: douăzecilea (ro)
• Russian: двадца́тый (ru) (dvadcátyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ficheadamh
• Serbo-Croatian: dvadeseti (sh)
• Shor: чегирбенчи
• Slovak: dvadsiaty (sk)
• Spanish: vigésimo (es), veinteno (es)
• Swahili: ishirini (sw)
• Swedish: tjugonde (sv)
• Tagalog: ikadalawampu
• Tajik: бистум (bistum)
• Tatar: егерменче (egermençe)
• Thai: ที่ยี่สิบ (tîi-yîi-sìp)
• Turkish: yirminci (tr)
• Ukrainian: двадця́тий (uk) (dvadcjátyj)
• Uzbek: yigirmanchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ hai mươi
• Yiddish: צוואַנציקסט‎ (tsvantsikst)

Noun

twentieth (plural twentieths)

1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.
2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:

     There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.

Translations

ordinal object

• Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord)
• Finnish: kahdeskymmenes (fi)
• French: vingtième (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: huszadik (hu)
• Interlingua: vintesimo m, vigesimo m, vintesima f, vigesima f

• Italian: ventesimo (it) m, ventesima f
• Macedonian: дваесетка f (dvaesetka)
• Manx: yn feedoo m
• Old English: twēntigoþa
• Portuguese: vigésimo (pt) m, vigésima f
• Spanish: vigésimo (es)
• Turkish: yirminci (tr)

portion of whole

• Armenian: քսաներորդ (hy) (kʿsanerord)
• Catalan: vintè (ca) m
• Finnish: kahdeskymmenesosa
• French: vingtième (fr) m
• Georgian: მეოცედი (meocedi)
• Hungarian: huszad (hu)
• Interlingua: vintesimo, vigesimo

• Italian: ventesimo (it) m
• Macedonian: дваесеттина f (dvaesettina)
• Old English: twēntigoþa dǣl
• Portuguese: vigésimo (pt) m
• Spanish: veinteavo (es), vigésimo (es)
• Swedish: tjugondedel (sv) c, tjugondel (sv) c
• Yiddish: צוואַנציקסטל‎ n (tsvantsikstl)