Variant: or -eth
Function: adjective suffix
Etymology: Middle English -the, -te, from Old English -tha, -ta; akin to Old High German -do -th, Latin -tus, Greek -tos, Sanskrit -tha
― used in forming ordinal numbers <hundred th > <forti eth >
Variant: or -eth
Function: adjective suffix
Etymology: Middle English -the, -te, from Old English -tha, -ta; akin to Old High German -do -th, Latin -tus, Greek -tos, Sanskrit -tha
― used in forming ordinal numbers <hundred th > <forti eth >
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012