fifth

== English == === Alternative forms === fift, fiveth (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English fīfta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five +‎ -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots fift, fyft (“fifth”), North Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), West Frisian fyfde (“fifth”), Dutch vijfde (“fifth”), Low German fifte, föfte, füfte (“fifth”), German fünfte (“fifth”), Danish femte (“fifth”), Swedish femte (“fifth”), Icelandic fimmta (“fifth”). === Pronunciation === (UK, US, standard) enPR: fĭfth, IPA(key): /fɪfθ/ Rhymes: -ɪfθ (UK, US, informal) enPR: fĭth, IPA(key): /fɪθ/ Rhymes: -ɪθ (UK, US, dialectal) enPR: fĭft, IPA(key): /fɪft/ Rhymes: -ɪft === Adjective === fifth (not comparable) The ordinal form of the number five. ==== Synonyms ==== 5th, Vth; (in names of monarchs and popes) V, V. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === fifth (plural fifths) (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position. (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission. One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth. (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter). (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale) The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. ==== Synonyms ==== (one of five equal parts): ⅕ ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === fifth (third-person singular simple present fifths, present participle fifthing, simple past and past participle fifthed) (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. (transitive, informal) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.