tenthとは

語源

From Middle English. 古期英語 had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: tĕnth, IPA^(key): /tɛnθ/, [tʰɛn̪θ]
  • IPA^(key): /tɪnθ/ (pin–pen merger)
• 韻: -ɛnθ
• 韻: -ɪnθ (pin–pen merger)

形容詞

tenth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number ten.

同意語

• 10th, 10th
• tithe (obs.)
• (in epithets) X

名詞

tenth (複数形 tenths)

1. The person or thing in the tenth position.
2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

3. (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
4. (Britain, law, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

同意語

• (one of ten parts): decim, decima, decimate, tithe, titheling, tithing (all obs.)
• (musical interval または note): decima (obs.)

動詞

tenth (三人称単数 現在形 tenths, 現在分詞 tenthing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tenthed)

1. to divide by ten, into tenths
   • 1832 The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale

     A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.

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