- nigontig
- num ninety; ordinal nigontigoða
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ninety — noun (plural nineties) Etymology: Middle English ninety, adjective, from Old English nigontig, short for hundnigontig, from hundnigontig, noun, group of 90, from hund , literally, hundred + nigon nine + tig group of 10; akin to Old English tīen… … New Collegiate Dictionary
newn̥ — Nine. 1. nine, nineteen, ninety, ninth, from Old English nigon, nine, with derivatives nigontig, ninety, and nigontēne, nineteen ( tēne, ten; see dekm̥), from Germanic *nigun, variant of *niwun … Universalium
ninety — /nuyn tee/, n., pl. nineties, adj. n. 1. a cardinal number, ten times nine. 2. a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. nineties, the numbers, years, degrees, or the like, from 90 through 99, as in… … Universalium
ninety — nine|ty [ˈnaınti] number [: Old English; Origin: nigontig, from nigon nine ] 1.) the number 90 2.) the nineties [plural] also the 90s, the 1990s the years from 1990 to 1999 ▪ America was far richer in the nineties. the early/mid/late nineties … Dictionary of contemporary English
ninety — (n.) O.E. nigontig, from NINE (Cf. nine) + tig group of ten (see TY (Cf. ty) (1)). Cognate with O.Fris. niontich, M.Du. negentich, Du. negentig, Ger. neunzig … Etymology dictionary
ninety — cardinal number (plural nineties) equivalent to the product of nine and ten; ten less than one hundred; 90. (Roman numeral: xc or XC.) Derivatives ninetieth ordinal number. ninetyfold adjective & adverb Origin OE nigontig (see nine … English new terms dictionary
ninety — nine•ty [[t]ˈnaɪn ti[/t]] n. pl. ties, adj. 1) a cardinal number, ten times nine 2) a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC 3) a set of this many persons or things 4) nineties, the numbers from 90 through 99, as in referring to the years of a… … From formal English to slang
ninety — /ˈnaɪnti / (say nuyntee) noun (plural nineties) 1. a cardinal number, ten times nine. 2. a symbol for this number, as 90 or XC. 3. (plural) the numbers from 90 to 99 of a series, especially with reference to the years of a person s age, or the… …
ninety — [nīn′tē] adj. [ME nigenty < OE nigontig: see NINE & TY2] nine times ten n. pl. nineties the cardinal number between eighty nine and ninety one; 90; XC (or LXXXX) the nineties the numbers or years, as of a century, from ninety through ninety… … English World dictionary
ninety — n. & adj. n. (pl. ies) 1 the product of nine and ten. 2 a symbol for this (90, xc, XC). 3 (in pl.) the numbers from 90 to 99, esp. the years of a century or of a person s life. adj. that amount to ninety. Phrases and idioms: ninety first, second … Useful english dictionary
