# oneth
## English
### Etymology

From one +‎ -th.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwʌnθ/
* Rhymes: -ʌnθ

### Adjective

oneth (not comparable)
* (nonstandard) 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth
** Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more elementary law, which explains why the minus-oneth law had to be formulated. —Paul M. S. Monk, 2008. "Laws and the minus-oneth law of thermodynamics", in Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world, p. 8.
** (see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.
* (nonstandard) Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)th
** 1945, Feed & Farm Supplies - Volume 31, page 240:About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.
** 1945, Eric Temple Bell, Numerology: The Magic of Numbers, page 99:The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please.
** 2008, Steven D. Hales, What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, →ISBN, page 187:If the billionth dog in the line is a Saint Bernard, then the last (billion-plus-oneth) dog in the line is a Saint Bernard.

### Noun

oneth (plural oneths)
* (nonstandard) (in compounds with twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc.) A fractional part of an integer ending in one
** about twenty thirty-oneths in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-oneths to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies. —"Brooke & Co. (Limited) v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue". In The Weekly Reporter, vol. XLIV, p. 671, August 15, 1896. Supreme Court of Judicature, House of Lords, London.
* (in algebraic expressions) An ordinal value that is represented by an expression ending in 1 such as the (n + 1)th.
** 1892, William S. Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, page 970:And then it was found that Dr. Whewell, or, as others asserted, one Dr. Donaldson, of Cambridge, had already responded to a similar challenge with an anticipatory variation of the idea : Youths who would senior wranglers be Must drink the juice distilled from tea, Must burn the midnight oil from month to month, Raising binomials to the n + 1th (n plus oneth).

### Synonyms

* first

### Derived terms

* eighty-oneth
* fifty-oneth
* forty-oneth
* onety-oneth
* seventy-oneth
* sixty-oneth
* thirty-oneth
* twenty-oneth

### Anagrams

* ethno-, hoten, on the, thone

## Middle English
### Verb

oneth
* third-person singular present of onen

#### Alternative forms

* anes (Northern)