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   Cardinal:five
   Ordinal:fifth
   Abbreviated ordinal:5th
   Latinate ordinal:quintary,quinary
   Latinate reverse order ordinal:propreantepenultimate
   Adverbial:fivetimes
   Multiplier:fivefold
   Latinate multiplier:quintuple
   Distributive:quintuply
   Germanic collective:fivesome
   Collective of n parts:quintuplet,pentuplet
   Greek or Latinate collective:pentad
   Greek collective prefix:penta-
   Latinate collective prefix:quinque-
   Fractional:fifth
   Elemental:quintuplet,pentuplet
   Greek prefix:pempto-
   Number of musicians:quintet
   Number of years:quinquennium,lustrum

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Etymology

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PIE word
*pénkʷe

FromMiddle Englishfifthe,fifte,fift, fromOld Englishfīfta(“fifth”), fromProto-Germanic*fimftô(“fifth”) or*femftô, equivalent tofive +‎-th. Cognate withScotsfift,fyft(“fifth”),North Frisianfyfde(“fifth”),West Frisianfyfde(“fifth”),Dutchvijfde(“fifth”),Low Germanfifte,föfte,füfte(“fifth”),Germanfünfte(“fifth”),Danishfemte(“fifth”),Swedishfemte(“fifth”),Icelandicfimmta(“fifth”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fifth (notcomparable)

  1. The ordinal form of the numberfive.

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Translations

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Ordinal form of the number 5—see also5th

Noun

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fifth (pluralfifths)

  1. (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
    1. (ellipsis) Thefifth gear of atransmission.
  2. One of five equal parts of a whole:one-fifth.
  3. (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an Americangallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is,three quarters of a liter).
  4. (music) The musicalinterval between one note and another fivescale degrees higher (the fifth note in ascale)
    • 1984,Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”, inVarious Positions:
      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, thefifth
  5. The fifth voice in apolyphonic melody.

Synonyms

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  • (one of five equal parts):⅕

Derived terms

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Translations

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person or thing in the fifth position
one of five equal parts of a whole
fifth gear—seefifth gear
quantity of liquor
musical interval

Verb

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fifth (third-person singular simple presentfifths,present participlefifthing,simple past and past participlefifthed)

  1. (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
    • 1996,Music in Early English Religious Drama: Minstrels playing‎[1], page510:
      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.
    • 1978,Discant and the Theory of Fifthing‎[2]:
      Each of these three groups contributes some special insight into the nature of fifthing and the context in which it was practiced.
  2. (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
    • 2017,Critics Pick the TV Shows That Get Mental Health Right — IndieWire Survey‎[3]:
      Though seconding (orfifthing) the praise for “BoJack Horseman” and “In Treatment,” I think I’ll use the majority of my space to discuss “You’re the Worst.”
  3. (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.
    • 2006,Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia‎[4], page188:
      3/5 has been throughfifthing. 2/3 has been through thirding. Therefore, 3/5 now needs thirding and 2/3 needsfifthing
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