fifth

Meanings

Adjective

  • The ordinal form of the number five.

Noun

  • The person or thing in the fifth position.
  • One of five equal parts of a whole.
  • The fifth gear of an engine.
  • A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
  • The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor scale)
  • The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Verb

  • A music technique of singing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
  • To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.

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Origin

  • From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta ("fifth"), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô ("fifth") or *femftô, equivalent to five + -th. Cognate with Scots fift, fyft, North Frisian fyfde ("fifth"), West Frisian fyfde ("fifth"), Dutch vijfde ("fifth"), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte, German fünfte ("fifth"), Danish femte ("fifth"), Swedish femte ("fifth"), Icelandic fimmta ("fifth").

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