twelfth

Meanings

Adjective

• The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

Noun

• One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
• An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth

Related

Similar words

• 12th, 12^th, XIIth; XII ; dozenth
• dozenth

Origin

• From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta, from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô, equivalent to twelve + -th. Cognate with Scots twelft, Saterland Frisian tweelfte, West Frisian tolfde, Dutch twaalfde, German Low German twalfde, twalvde, German zwölfte, Danish tolvte,
• Swedish tolfte, Icelandic tólfta.