twentiethadj.n.

/ˈtwɛntɪɪθ/

Forms: Old English twentigoþa ( -teogoþa, -tugoþa), twentigþa ( -tegþa), Middle English tuentiþe, twentide, Middle English twentiþe, Middle English tuuentiþe, Middle English twentythe, ( -tyd, 1500s tuentieth), 1500s–1600s twentith, twenteth, 1500s– twentieth; β. Middle English tuentende, tuentiand(e; γ. Middle English twentiest, Middle English twentyest.

Etymology: Old English twentigoða , etc. (see above), < twentig twenty adj. and n. + -oða (see -th suffix²); becoming in Middle English twentiþe , -ythe , from 16th cent. twentieth . Northern Middle English had also twentende , twentiand(e , with the Norse ordinal suffix -andi , -ende ; compare Old Norse tuttugandi , Norwegian tjugande , Swedish tjugonde , Middle Danish tjugende , Danish tyvende . The other West Germanic languages have forms with the superlative suffix -ōst- , as Old Frisian twinti- , twintegosta (West Frisian tweintichste ), Middle Dutch twintechste , Dutch, Middle Low German, Low German twintigste , Old High German zweinzugôsto , (Middle High German zweinzigeste , German zwanzigste ), also modern Icelandic tuttugasti ; a similar form twentiest appears in 14–15th cent. southern English: compare Caxton's thirtiest for thirtieth adj. and n.

A. adj.

1. The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral twenty adj. and n.; last of twenty; next after the nineteenth.

a. With a modified noun expressed. †twentieth penny, one penny in every twenty: cf. third adj. 4, sense A. 2 below.

ΚΠ

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 20 Mar. On þone twentegðan dæg þæs monðes bið se þridda worolde dæg.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 194 Mona se twentigoþa.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9036 In þe tuentiþe ȝer of is kinedom.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3641 On ðat oðer, twentide dai, Of ðe oðe[r] moned, tagte he wei.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 255 Kyng Henry hadde þe twentiþe peny of lewed men['s] catel.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 376 Xix thai war, and Craufurd..The twentyd man the nowmer to fullfill.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 372/2 Vingtiesme, twenteth.

1564 T. Harding Answer to Iuelles Chalenge (1565) 96 b [This] Origen sheweth..in the twentith homilie vpon Josue.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iii. 33 In this twentieth yeer..Sir Piers Butler..was created Earl of Osory [printed Oscry].

1779 Mirror No. 57. ⁋6 Soon after my twentieth year my father died.

1818 J. H. Frere Monks & Giants iii. xi The festivals..That every twentieth century come in season.

1894 S. J. Weyman Under Red Robe vii I was pondering for the twentieth time what step I should take next.

β. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 309 Whan it wer..stabled & sette, To gyue þe penie tuentende þe Kyng.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10999 Þe four and teuntiand night.γ. 1480 W. Caxton Contn. Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VIII. 523 The two and twentyest day.1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 334 b/1 The one and twentyest Chapytre.1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxxxi. sig. nniii/2 Siliqua is the twentiest [a1398 BL Add. twentiþe] parte of Solid.

b. with ellipsis of the noun, usually to be supplied from context; also spec. of day (of the month), occasionally of year.

ΚΠ

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 63 The twentieth of September, seven of the..Conspirators..were condemned.

a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 337 In the 20^th of her age.

1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 157 Yesterday..being the Twentieth of this Instant.

1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 31 The Interim, between the twentieth and twenty-eighth was filled.

1782 in J. H. Harting Hist. Sardin. Chapel (1905) 25 On the 20th of April, 1782, on Easter Eve, this year.

1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 245 In the sixth century, as in the twentieth.

c. with numerals below ten, forming ordinals of those between twenty and thirty: one-and-twentieth, two-and-twentieth, etc. (also †twentieth (and) one, etc., obsolete rare); now mostly superseded by twenty-first, twenty-second, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twenty > twentieth

twentietha900

twentya1100

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 22 Jan. On þone twa & twentigðan dæg þæs monðes.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 194 Mona se an & twentigoða.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 53/221 In þe on an twentiþe ȝere.

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xli. 103 Þe ȝer of his regne þe ȝette ant tuuentiþe.

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3086 In Septembre þe won & twentythe day.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 157 The tuentieth and ane ȝeir eftir the deith of his vnkle.

c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 53 The twentith tow daie of Julie.

1645 J. Milton Sonnet vii, in Poems 49 How soon hath Time..Stoln on his wing my three and twentith yeer!

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 231 The four and twentieth Year.

2. twentieth part n. any one of twenty equal parts into which a whole may be divided.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > a twentieth

twentiethc1330

twentieth parta1375

vicesime1600

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5354 No tong miȝt telle þe twentiþe parte.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vintain, a twentieth; or a twentieth part of.

a1745 J. Swift Mem. to Mr. Harley in Lett. (1766) I. 34 The twentieth parts are twelve-pence in the pound, paid annually out of all ecclesiastical benefices.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxvii. 377 Not a twentieth part of the affection that you have for Florence.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 16 §2 (1) (a) The yearly value..being taken to be one-twentieth part of the capital value.

B. n.

1. A twentieth part: see A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > a twentieth

twentiethc1330

twentieth parta1375

vicesime1600

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 145 Þe tende suld be nouht, no þe tuen[ten]de non make.

1611 [see twentieth part n. at sense A. 2].

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 345 Crown Pieces..one Twentieth lighter.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 345 Nineteen twentieths of a Crown.

1792 A. Young Trav. France 537 No such thing was known in any part of France..as a tenth: it was always a twelfth, or a thirteenth, or even a twentieth of the produce.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 218 The balls should not be more than one-twentieth of an inch in diameter.

2. Music. A note twenty diatonic degrees above or below a given note (both notes being reckoned), or the interval between two such notes (equal to two octaves and a sixth). So two and twentieth: see two-and-twentieth at two adj. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixteenth-twentieth

nineteenth1597

seventeenth1597

twentieth1609

sixteenth1876

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 79 Others are tripled, to wit,..a twentieth, which is equall to a sixt, and a thirteenth, and so forth.

Compounds

C1.

ΚΠ

1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxvii. 432 My thoughts made better music than even twentieth century orchestras discourse.

1898 (title) The twentieth century New Testament. Part I.

1903 G. Matheson Representative Men of Bible 2nd Ser. 201 Our interest in the narrative is a twentieth-century interest.

C2. Special combinations.

Twentieth Century n. (also Twentieth Century Limited) the name of an express train running between Chicago and New York from 1902 to 1967.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century > of a specific century

nineteenth century1850

Twentieth Century1902

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific

Flying Dutchman1813

Scotsman1871

Flying Scotchman1872

Orient Express1883

Twentieth Century1902

Royal Scot1927

Rheingold1928

Red Arrow1934

trans-Siberian1939

TEE1963

1902 N.Y. World 16 June 7/2 The ‘Twentieth Century Limited’, the new fast train,..yesterday afternoon at 2.45 o'clock pulled out of the Grand Central Station.

1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country iii. xxii. 332 The Twentieth Century's generally considered the best route to Dakota.

1980 M. G. Eberhart Casa Madrone iii. 39 The Twentieth Century made a record run of eighteen hours from New York to Chicago... It is a very good train.

twentieth century cut n. Diamond-cutting (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut > types of cut

rose-cut1773

Lisbon cut1874

twentieth century cut1903

profile cut1964

1903 W. R. Cattelle Precious Stones 63 The ‘twentieth century’ is a new form of cutting lately introduced. The number of facets is greater than in the brilliant-cut and they are differently shaped and arranged.

1925 E. H. Kraus & E. F. Holden Gems & Gem Materials vii. 77 The ‘twentieth century’ cut has eighty or eighty-eight facets.

1970 E. Bruton Diamonds x. 164 Jubilee or twentieth century cut (40 + 40 = 80 facets).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	twentieth
释义	twentiethadj.n. /ˈtwɛntɪɪθ/ Forms: Old English twentigoþa ( -teogoþa, -tugoþa), twentigþa ( -tegþa), Middle English tuentiþe, twentide, Middle English twentiþe, Middle English tuuentiþe, Middle English twentythe, ( -tyd, 1500s tuentieth), 1500s–1600s twentith, twenteth, 1500s– twentieth; β. Middle English tuentende, tuentiand(e; γ. Middle English twentiest, Middle English twentyest. Etymology: Old English twentigoða , etc. (see above), < twentig twenty adj. and n. + -oða (see -th suffix²); becoming in Middle English twentiþe , -ythe , from 16th cent. twentieth . Northern Middle English had also twentende , twentiand(e , with the Norse ordinal suffix -andi , -ende ; compare Old Norse tuttugandi , Norwegian tjugande , Swedish tjugonde , Middle Danish tjugende , Danish tyvende . The other West Germanic languages have forms with the superlative suffix -ōst- , as Old Frisian twinti- , twintegosta (West Frisian tweintichste ), Middle Dutch twintechste , Dutch, Middle Low German, Low German twintigste , Old High German zweinzugôsto , (Middle High German zweinzigeste , German zwanzigste ), also modern Icelandic tuttugasti ; a similar form twentiest appears in 14–15th cent. southern English: compare Caxton's thirtiest for thirtieth adj. and n. A. adj. 1. The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral twenty adj. and n.; last of twenty; next after the nineteenth. a. With a modified noun expressed. †twentieth penny, one penny in every twenty: cf. third adj. 4, sense A. 2 below. ΚΠ a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 20 Mar. On þone twentegðan dæg þæs monðes bið se þridda worolde dæg. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 194 Mona se twentigoþa. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9036 In þe tuentiþe ȝer of is kinedom. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3641 On ðat oðer, twentide dai, Of ðe oðe[r] moned, tagte he wei. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 255 Kyng Henry hadde þe twentiþe peny of lewed men['s] catel. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 376 Xix thai war, and Craufurd..The twentyd man the nowmer to fullfill. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 372/2 Vingtiesme, twenteth. 1564 T. Harding Answer to Iuelles Chalenge (1565) 96 b [This] Origen sheweth..in the twentith homilie vpon Josue. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iii. 33 In this twentieth yeer..Sir Piers Butler..was created Earl of Osory [printed Oscry]. 1779 Mirror No. 57. ⁋6 Soon after my twentieth year my father died. 1818 J. H. Frere Monks & Giants iii. xi The festivals..That every twentieth century come in season. 1894 S. J. Weyman Under Red Robe vii I was pondering for the twentieth time what step I should take next. β. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 309 Whan it wer..stabled & sette, To gyue þe penie tuentende þe Kyng.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10999 Þe four and teuntiand night.γ. 1480 W. Caxton Contn. Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VIII. 523 The two and twentyest day.1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 334 b/1 The one and twentyest Chapytre.1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. cxxxi. sig. nniii/2 Siliqua is the twentiest [a1398 BL Add. twentiþe] parte of Solid. b. with ellipsis of the noun, usually to be supplied from context; also spec. of day (of the month), occasionally of year. ΚΠ 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 63 The twentieth of September, seven of the..Conspirators..were condemned. a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 337 In the 20^th of her age. 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 157 Yesterday..being the Twentieth of this Instant. 1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 31 The Interim, between the twentieth and twenty-eighth was filled. 1782 in J. H. Harting Hist. Sardin. Chapel (1905) 25 On the 20th of April, 1782, on Easter Eve, this year. 1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 245 In the sixth century, as in the twentieth. c. with numerals below ten, forming ordinals of those between twenty and thirty: one-and-twentieth, two-and-twentieth, etc. (also †twentieth (and) one, etc., obsolete rare); now mostly superseded by twenty-first, twenty-second, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twenty > twentieth twentietha900 twentya1100 a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 22 Jan. On þone twa & twentigðan dæg þæs monðes. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 194 Mona se an & twentigoða. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 53/221 In þe on an twentiþe ȝere. a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xli. 103 Þe ȝer of his regne þe ȝette ant tuuentiþe. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3086 In Septembre þe won & twentythe day. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 157 The tuentieth and ane ȝeir eftir the deith of his vnkle. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 53 The twentith tow daie of Julie. 1645 J. Milton Sonnet vii, in Poems 49 How soon hath Time..Stoln on his wing my three and twentith yeer! 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 231 The four and twentieth Year. 2. twentieth part n. any one of twenty equal parts into which a whole may be divided. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > a twentieth twentiethc1330 twentieth parta1375 vicesime1600 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5354 No tong miȝt telle þe twentiþe parte. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vintain, a twentieth; or a twentieth part of. a1745 J. Swift Mem. to Mr. Harley in Lett. (1766) I. 34 The twentieth parts are twelve-pence in the pound, paid annually out of all ecclesiastical benefices. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxvii. 377 Not a twentieth part of the affection that you have for Florence. 1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 16 §2 (1) (a) The yearly value..being taken to be one-twentieth part of the capital value. B. n. 1. A twentieth part: see A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > a twentieth twentiethc1330 twentieth parta1375 vicesime1600 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 145 Þe tende suld be nouht, no þe tuen[ten]de non make. 1611 [see twentieth part n. at sense A. 2]. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 345 Crown Pieces..one Twentieth lighter. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 345 Nineteen twentieths of a Crown. 1792 A. Young Trav. France 537 No such thing was known in any part of France..as a tenth: it was always a twelfth, or a thirteenth, or even a twentieth of the produce. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 218 The balls should not be more than one-twentieth of an inch in diameter. 2. Music. A note twenty diatonic degrees above or below a given note (both notes being reckoned), or the interval between two such notes (equal to two octaves and a sixth). So two and twentieth: see two-and-twentieth at two adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixteenth-twentieth nineteenth1597 seventeenth1597 twentieth1609 sixteenth1876 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 79 Others are tripled, to wit,..a twentieth, which is equall to a sixt, and a thirteenth, and so forth. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxvii. 432 My thoughts made better music than even twentieth century orchestras discourse. 1898 (title) The twentieth century New Testament. Part I. 1903 G. Matheson Representative Men of Bible 2nd Ser. 201 Our interest in the narrative is a twentieth-century interest. C2. Special combinations. Twentieth Century n. (also Twentieth Century Limited) the name of an express train running between Chicago and New York from 1902 to 1967. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century > of a specific century nineteenth century1850 Twentieth Century1902 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific Flying Dutchman1813 Scotsman1871 Flying Scotchman1872 Orient Express1883 Twentieth Century1902 Royal Scot1927 Rheingold1928 Red Arrow1934 trans-Siberian1939 TEE1963 1902 N.Y. World 16 June 7/2 The ‘Twentieth Century Limited’, the new fast train,..yesterday afternoon at 2.45 o'clock pulled out of the Grand Central Station. 1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country iii. xxii. 332 The Twentieth Century's generally considered the best route to Dakota. 1980 M. G. Eberhart Casa Madrone iii. 39 The Twentieth Century made a record run of eighteen hours from New York to Chicago... It is a very good train. twentieth century cut n. Diamond-cutting (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut > types of cut rose-cut1773 Lisbon cut1874 twentieth century cut1903 profile cut1964 1903 W. R. Cattelle Precious Stones 63 The ‘twentieth century’ is a new form of cutting lately introduced. The number of facets is greater than in the brilliant-cut and they are differently shaped and arranged. 1925 E. H. Kraus & E. F. Holden Gems & Gem Materials vii. 77 The ‘twentieth century’ cut has eighty or eighty-eight facets. 1970 E. Bruton Diamonds x. 164 Jubilee or twentieth century cut (40 + 40 = 80 facets). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.a900
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