fiftieth, a. (n.)
(ˈfɪftɪɪθ)
Forms: 1–2 fiftigoða, -geða, fifteogoða, -gaðe, 2–3 fiftuða, -ðe, 3 fiftugeðe, 4–6 fif-, fyftith(e, -tyth(e, 6– fiftieth.
[OE. f{iacu}ftigoða:—earlier *f{iacu}ftigunþa, corresponding to ON. fimmtugánde (Sw., Norw. femtiande, Da. femtiende), f. fifty on the analogy of tenth.
In the other Teut. langs. the ordinal suffix is different: OFris. fîftichsta (Du. vijftigste), OHG. fimfzugôsto (MHG. vünfzegeste, mod.Ger. fünfzigste.]
The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal fifty. fiftieth part: one of fifty equal parts into which a quantity may be divided.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. (Z.) 283 Quinquagesimus se fifteo⁓goða. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 Þe fiftuða dei fram þan estertid. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 117 Þe fiftugeðe dai after estrene dai. 1382 Wyclif Num. viii. 25 Whanne the fyftithe ȝeer of age thei han fulfillid. 1530 Palsgr. 372 Cinquantiesme..fyftyth. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 495 The fiftieth Chapter sheweth the understanding of the same text by Effrem. 1611 Bible Lev. xxv. 11 A Iubile shall that fiftieth yeere be vnto you. 1721 Newton Opticks iii. xxi. (ed. 3) 325 The fiftieth part of an Inch. 1868 Lockyer Heavens (ed. 3) 310 The fiftieth part of a second of arc. 1800 Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 48 Their difference was exactly one-fifth of an inch. To this we must add a fiftieth. |