eleventh

Meanings

Adjective

• The ordinal form of the number eleven.

Noun

• The person or thing in the eleventh position.
• One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
• The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.

Related

Similar words

• 11th, 11^th, XIth; XI

Origin

• From Middle English ellevenþe from elleven + -th, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as endleft, ellefthe, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.