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別の表記

• twelfe (obsolete, but the corresponding pronunciation /twɛlf/ is still widespread today)
• twelveth (archaic)

語源

From 中期英語 twelfthe, twelfte, from 古期英語 twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve +‎ -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”), Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /twɛlfθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɫfθ]; /twɛlθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɤθ]; (th-fronting) /twɛlf/ [tʰw̥ɛɫʷf]; (some speakers) /twɛlftθ/
• 韻: -ɛlfθ, -ɛlθ, -ɛlf, -ɛlftθ

形容詞

twelfth (not comparable)

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

   The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.

   She finished twelfth in the race.

同意語

• (ordinal form of twelve): 12th, 12, XIIth; XII (in names of monarchs and popes); dozenth

派生語

名詞

twelfth (plural twelfths)

1. One of twelve equal parts of a whole.

   A twelfth of 240 is 20.

   Five twelfths of the population voted in support of the proposal.

2. (music) An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.

同意語

• (one of twelve equal parts): dozenth; uncia (chiefly Greco-Roman contexts)

派生語

• perfect twelfth

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