fifthの意味・使い方・発音

fifth

英 [fɪfθ] 美 [fɪfθ]

fifth (adj.): c. 1200, fift, from Old English fifta "fifth," from fif "five" (see five) + -ta (see -th (1)). Normal development would have yielded fift; altered 14c. by influence of fourth. Compare Old Frisian fifta, Old Saxon fifto, Old Norse fimmti, Dutch vijfde, Old High German fimfto, German fünfte, Gothic fimfta.

Noun meaning "fifth part of a gallon of liquor" is first recorded 1938, American English; the noun in the music sense is from 1590s. Fifth Avenue (in New York City) has been used figuratively for "elegance, taste" since at least 1858. Fifth wheel "superfluous person or thing" attested from 1630s. It also was the name of a useful device, "wheel-plate or circle iron of a carriage" placed on the forward axle for support and to facilitate turning (1825). And the phrase sometimes is turned on its head and given a positive sense of "that which a prudent driver ought to take with him in case one of the others should break" (1817). Fifth-monarchy-man, 17c. for "anarchist zealot," is a reference to Dan. ii:44.

1. He was the fifth person to be killed in sectarian violence.: 彼は宗派暴力の5人目の犠牲者だった。

2.It seems that the fifth man is one John Cairncross.: 5位はジョン?ケインクロスという人のようです。

3.The new territory would extend over one- fifth of Canada 's land mass.: この新しい領土はカナダの陸地面積を1/5以上拡大させるだろう。

4.Elections will now take place on November the twenty- fifth .: 選挙は11月25日に行われる予定です。

5.Bergdorf Goodman has opened a men 's store on Fifth Avenue.: ボードルフ?グッドマンは5番街にメンズショップをオープンした。