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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * UK: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/, /-ɪθ/^(Wiktionary)
+ * US: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/, /ˈtwɛn.i.əθ/^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It continues [[inh|ang|twentigoþa]],^(OED 2026)^(SOED 2002)^(MWU 2024)^(Dictionary.com 2016) from [[m|ang|twentig|t=twenty]] and the ordinal suffix [[m|ang|-oþa]].^(OED 2026)^(MWU 2024) In Middle English this became [[m|enm|twentithe]].^(OED 2026)^(SOED 2002) From the 16th century the word was remade from [[twenty]] and [[-th]] as ''twentieth''.^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) Northern Middle English also had [[m|enm|twentiand]], with the ordinal suffix of [[non|tuttugandi]].^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Next after the nineteenth, with its noun expressed: in the ''Old English Martyrology''.^(OED 2026)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The fraction, one of twenty equal parts, appears as a noun in Robert Mannyng's ''Chronicle'' (c. 1330) and as an adjective in ''William of Palerne'' (before 1375).^(OED 2026) From 1643 the word stands alone, especially for the twentieth day of a month,^(OED 2026) and in music it is the interval of two octaves and a sixth (1609).^(OED 2026) Johnson (1755) defined it, more briefly, as "twice tenth; ordinal of twenty".^(Johnson 1755)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * Old English – ''twentigoþa'', the ordinal.^(OED 2026)
+ * c. 1330 – a twentieth part.^(OED 2026)
+ * 16th century – the modern form ''twentieth''.^(Etymonline)
+ * 1609 – the musical interval.^(OED 2026)
+ * 1643 – used without a noun, as of a date.^(OED 2026)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Coming next after the nineteenth in a series; the [[ordinal]] of [[twenty]], often written 20th.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)
+ # Being one of twenty equal parts: ''a twentieth share''.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # Number twenty in a series, especially the twentieth day of a month: ''They arrive on the twentieth.''^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)
+ # One of twenty equal parts of something.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)
+ # (music) An interval of two octaves and a sixth.^(OED 2026)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[twenty]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}