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Definition fifth

Etymology

From Middle English fifthe, fifte, fift, from Old English f?fta (“fifth”), from Proto-Germanic *fimftô (“fifth”) or *femftô, equivalent to five +‎ -th. 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”).

Adjective

fifth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number five.

Noun

fifth (plural fifths)

1. The person or thing in the fifth position.
2. One of five equal parts of a whole.
3. The fifth gear of an engine.
4. A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.
5. The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor scale)
6. The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Verb

fifth (third-person singular simple present fifths, present participle fifthing, simple past and past participle fifthed)

1. A music technique. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
3. to divide by 5, equates to multiplying a denominator by 5

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