ninth
/naɪnθ/ adjective, noun, verb
Forms ninths ninthing ninthed nineth
- adjective The ordinal form of the number nine.
- noun The person or thing in the ninth position.
- noun One of nine equal parts of a whole.
- noun (music) The compound interval between any tone and the tone represented on the ninth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and two of the octave above; the octave of the second, consisting of 13 or 14 semitones (called minor and major ninth).
- verb To lose a ninth.
- verb To divide by nine.
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Etymology
From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English niġoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô; the -n- was reinserted by analogy with nine. Equivalent to nine + -th (ordinal suffix).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
- adjective Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.
- noun The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
- noun (a) An interval containing an octave and a second.
Etymology [From Nine; cf. AS. nigoedha.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ninth”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details