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語源

Inherited from 中期英語 sevententhe, seventethe, from 古期英語 seofontēoþa, equivalent to seventeen +‎ -th.

発音

• IPA: /ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/
• 韻: -iːnθ
• ハイフネーション: sev‧en‧teenth

形容詞

seventeenth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
   • 1913, Theodore Edward Dowling, chapter III, in Gaza: A City of many Battles‎, page 40:

     Mr. Edward Glasser maintains that this people existed from about the seventeenth century B.C., and that the Sabæans followed them in the occupancy of those regions.

使用する際の注意点

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

略語s

17th, 17; (in names of monarchs and popes) XVII

派生語

名詞

seventeenth (plural seventeenths)

1. One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.

   A seventeeth of 340 is 20.

2. (music) An interval of two octaves and a third.