fifth
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”).
Base: five
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: fift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fiveth
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fifths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fiveth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fifths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fifthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fifthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fifthed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fiveth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The ordinal form of the number five.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
gloss: The person or thing in the fifth position.
pos: noun
gloss: The person or thing in the fifth position.
pos: noun
tags: ellipsis
gloss: One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
pos: noun
gloss: A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
pos: noun
examples: Now I've heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
gloss: The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
pos: noun
gloss: To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
pos: verb
examples: Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.
Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
gloss: To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: A lisping young “Soundings,” or master’s assistant, sung out “I thecond the mothon,” instantly transferring his beer to our hero’s face. In short the resolution was thirded, fourthed, fifthed, and sixthed, all following suit with the swipes:[…]
It was then moved, seconded, thirded, fourthed, and fifthed, “that Jarman be, and is hereby hung, and ought to be kicked.”
Though seconding (or fifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
gloss: To divide by five.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
transitive
examples: 3/5 has been through fifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needs fifthing
Derived words: augmented fifth
diminished fifth
flatted fifth
perfect fifth
plead the Fifth
take the fifth
typhoon fifth
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հինգերորդ
roman: hingerord
lang: Asturian
word: quintu
lang: Basque
word: bosgarren
lang: Bulgarian
word: пети
roman: peti
lang: Danish
word: den femte
lang: Finnish
word: viides
lang: French
word: cinquième
lang: German
word: Fünfte
lang: Hungarian
word: ötödik
lang: Interlingua
word: quinto
lang: Interlingua
word: quinta
lang: Italian
word: quinto
lang: Italian
word: quinta
lang: Latgalian
word: pīkts
lang: Latgalian
word: pīkta
lang: Latgalian
word: pīktais
lang: Latgalian
word: pīktuo
lang: Latin
word: quintus
lang: Latvian
word: piektais
lang: Latvian
word: piektā
lang: Lithuanian
word: penktas
lang: Lithuanian
word: penkta
lang: Portuguese
word: quinto
lang: Portuguese
word: quinta
lang: Romanian
word: al cincilea
lang: Romanian
word: a cincea
lang: Scots
word: fift
lang: Swedish
word: femte
lang: Swedish
word: femma
lang: Turkish
word: beşinci
lang: Walloon
word: cénkinme