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单词 fortieth
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fortiethadj.n.

Brit. /ˈfɔːtɪᵻθ/, U.S. /ˈfɔrdiᵻθ/
Forms:

α. early Old English feowerteogþa, Old English feowertegoða, Old English feowertegða, Old English feowerteogaða (rare), Old English feowerteogeþa, Old English feowerteogeða, Old English feowerteogoða, Old English feowerteogða, Old English feowerteoþa, Old English feowerteoða, Old English feowertigeþa, Old English feowertigeða, Old English feowertigoþa, Old English feowertigoða, Old English feowertigþa (rare), Old English feowertigða, Old English feowertugeða (rare), Old English feowertygeþa (rare), Old English feowertygeða (rare), late Old English feorwertigeþa, late Old English feowertihð- (inflected form), late Old English fęwertegeð- (inflected form), late Old English fowertigeð- (inflected form), early Middle English feortiȝeþe, early Middle English feortuȝeþ- (inflected form), early Middle English feortyȝeþe, early Middle English feowerteoðe, early Middle English feowertiȝeþe, early Middle English fourteoþe, early Middle English fowertiȝthe, early Middle English fowertiðe, early Middle English fowertuðe, early Middle English furteohte, early Middle English fuwertiðe, Middle English fourtied, Middle English fourtithe, Middle English fourtiþe, Middle English uourtaȝte (Kent), Middle English–1600s fourteth, 1500s fourtith, 1500s–1600s fortith, 1500s–1600s fourteth, 1500s–1600s fourtieth, 1500s– fortieth; also Scottish pre-1700 fourtid, pre-1700 fourtyde, pre-1700 fourtyid, pre-1700 fowrtyde; N.E.D (1897) also records a form late Middle English fortith.

β. Middle English fourtiand (northern).

γ. 1500s fourtyest.

Also represented by the abbreviations 40th, 40th, xlth, xlth, XLth, XLth, and variants.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: < the Germanic base of four adj. + a variant of the Germanic base of tenth adj. showing voicing of *h to *g (by Verner's Law; see further discussion of form types at tenth adj.). Compare Old Icelandic fertugandi , (late) fertugasti (with suffix substitution, compare -est suffix, probably after Middle Low German; Icelandic fertugasti ), Old Swedish fiuratighunde , fyretighinde (Swedish fyrtionde , with alteration after the cardinal form), Old Danish føretiughende , føretiwende (Danish fyrretyvende ). Some forms in English (including the modern standard form) apparently show re-formation after forty adj. and -eth (see -th suffix2).West Germanic parallels. Forms in the continental Germanic languages appear typically to show re-formation after the respective cardinal form, with different suffixation (superlative: see -est suffix), as Old Frisian fiūwertichsta (West Frisian fjirtichste ), Old Dutch fiertigist (Middle Dutch viertichste , Dutch veertigste ), Old Saxon fiuwartigisto (Middle Low German vērtichste ), Old High German fiorzugōsto (Middle High German vierzigeste , German vierzigste ). Variant forms. The β. forms probably show early Scandinavian influence, perhaps facilitated by early forms of some lower ordinal numerals with -nd ; compare the γ-forms at tenth adj. and the discussion at that entry. Compare also the β. forms at twentieth adj. and n. The γ. forms probably reflect Dutch influence; compare e.g. the γ. forms at twentieth adj. and n. Such forms are often found in texts printed by Caxton and de Worde, who both had connections with the Netherlands. In Old English and Middle English there is partial formal overlap with fourteenth adj.; compare discussion at sixtieth adj. and n.
The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral forty adj. and n. the fortieth man: one man in forty. fortieth part: one of forty equal parts into which a quantity may be divided. Also absol. and quasi-n.
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c1000 Ælfric Deut. i. 3 On þam feowerteoðan geare.
c1175 Cott. Hom. 229 Drihten þa an þa furteohte deȝe his æristes astah to heofene.
1258 Charter Henry III in J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. (1700) II. App. 25 In the two and fowertiȝthe geare of ure crunninge.
1357 Lay Folks Catech. 152 The fourtied day after that he ras..he stegh in-till heuen.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. iv. 89 Of hys kynryk þe fowrtyde yhere.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. vi. sig. e.vi The fourtyest daye after his resurreccyon.
1590 J. Smythe in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 51 Of which, scarce the fortieth man escaped with life.
1611 Bible (King James) Chron. xxvi. 31 In the fourtieth yeere of the reigne of Dauid. View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Love's Diet 23 Ah! what doth it availe To be the fourtieth name in an entail?
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 222 It is not above a fortieth Part in Value, to the rest of Britain.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. v. 145 In that fortieth of Isaiah how is that Jehovah set forth?
1800 Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 55 A large card, divided..into fortieths of an inch.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 126 All prelates [etc.]..were summoned to contribute at least a fortieth to this end.
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