thirtieth, a. (n.)
(ˈθɜːtɪɪθ)
Forms: α. 1 ðr{iacu}tiᵹoða, þrittiᵹoþa, þr{iacu}teᵹoða, þritteoᵹoða, þreotteoᵹaþa, þr{iacu}teᵹða, 2–3 þrittuþe, 3–4 þrittiþe, (3 -teþe), 4 þrittyþe, thretyd, (Ayenb.) þrittaȝte, 4–5 thrittyde, threttithe, -yth, 5 thrydtythe, thryddyþ. β. (5 thyrttyest), 6 thyrteth, -ieth, thirteth, -ith, therttieth, 6– thirtieth.
[OE. þr{iacu}tiᵹoða, -e, f. þr{iacu}tiᵹ + -oða, -oðe (see -th2), becoming in ME. þrittyþe, threttyth, in 16th c., by assimilation to the current form of the cardinal, thirtith, therttieth, thirtieth. Cf. ON. þr{iacu}tugande, -tugunde, -tegunde, later þr{iacu}tugti. The WGer. langs. have a form in -ēsta, -esta, OFris. thr{iacu}tegesta, OHG. drîzugôsto, Ger. dreissigste; so mod.Icel. þr{iacu}tugasti: cf. Caxton's thyrttyest.]
A. adj. The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal thirty; the last of thirty. the thirtieth man, the last man, or any one man, of thirty. thirtieth part, one of the thirty equal parts into which anything may be divided.
| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xxii. [xxiii.] (1890) 482 Þy ðritiᵹoðan [ᵹere mines lifes]. a 900 Martyrol. 88 On þone an ond þriteᵹðan dæᵹ. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xlix. (Z.) 283 Tricesimus, se þrittiᵹoða [ðritoᵹoða, þritteoᵹoða]. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 On þe two and þrittuðe dai. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9129 In þe sixe & þrittiþe ȝer. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1418 Þe þrittyþe day, lesse ne mo. 1340 Ayenb. 234 Þo þet byeþ ine spoushod..habbeþ þet þrittaȝte frut. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nycholas) 560 He..syne þe thretyd psalme can say. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 155 In þe foure and thrittyde ȝere. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 2182 In þe same thryddyþ day. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 350 b/2 The monke that was dede appierid on the thyrttyest day. 1530 Palsgr. 372/2 Trentiesme, thyrteth. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 390 The thirtieth Chapter beginneth the exposition. 1587 Golding De Mornay xvi. (1592) 258 Which of all the beastes hath so much as the thirtith part of them in his body? 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 167 The threttieth ȝeir of his regne. Mod. Term ends on the thirtieth of June. |
B. n. A thirtieth part; in Eng. Hist. a thirtieth part of movable goods payable as an aid.
| 1800 Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 59 A thirtieth of an inch. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mech. 662 An addition of one-twentieth or one-thirtieth to the mass. 1893 J. A. Vincent in Lanc. & Chesh. Rec. Soc. XXVII. 44 The great council, in which the king required a Thirtieth from the whole nation. |