Middle English Dictionary Entry
thrī̆tīthe num.
Entry Info
| Forms | thrī̆tīthe num. Also thrittithe, thrittethe, thrittide, thridtithe, thriddith, threttithe, threttethe, threttide, (K) thrittaȝte & (early) þri(t)tuðe. |
| Etymology | OE þrītigoða, þrittigoða, þrēotteogaþa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Ordinal number as adj.: thirtieth; also, thirtyfold [quot. 1340]; ~ dai, the thirtieth day; also, on the thirtieth day; ~ som, a group of thirty people; (b) ordinal number as noun: the thirtieth degree; the thirtieth error; (c) in compound numbers.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)71/761 : Te bordes of þis bat bursten & to breken & te sea sencte him on his þrituðe sum ant þer to ȝet fowre.
- a1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)74/959 : Þer ha..ferden wið murhðe..to criste oþe þrittuðe dei of nouembres moneð.
- c1300 SLeg.Nich.(LdMisc 108)306 : Þe þrittiþe [Hrl: þretteþe] saume..he bi-gan þus.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3311 : On ðe ðrittide dai, Ðat here wei fro egypte lay, Ðor he woren hungur for-dred.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)234/6 : Þo þet byeþ ine spoushod..habbeþ þet þrittaȝte [Vices & V.(2): þretteþe] frut.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)301b/b : Þis vnrype whelpynge makeþ, and þanne he gendreþ þe þrittiþe day, & þerof comeþ hasty whelpynge.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)10/13 : Jesus was þo entred in his þrittide wyntere of elde.
- a1425 LOL (Wnds E.I.I)56/4 : In þe þrittiþe ȝer of Eroude þe king..al þe world was peesid.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2182 : Hit byfelle þus in þe same thryddyþ day.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2199 : Hurre soule fatte to heuene blysse þe thrydtythe day or hite were y-bore.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.189 : Þe þrettyde day þe dede monk aperyd..and þankede hym.
b
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)22/331 : Ha is an hundret degrez ihehet towart heouene, hwil ha meiðhad halt..& leapeð into wedlac, þet is dun neoðer to þe þrittuðe.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Curates (Corp-C 296)161 : Þe þrittiþe: þei taken not dymes & offryngis bi forme of þe olde testament.
c
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)47 : Ðanne wimman hadde cnaue child on þe ehteðe dai efter his burþe dide þe lage þat wes of his hlichame, and after þan on þe two and þrittuðe dai gede to chirche.
- c1300 SLeg.11000 Virg.(LdMisc 108)145 : In þe to hondrede ȝere and eiȝte and þrittiþe ȝere After ore louerdes buyrtyme, þis maidenes i-martrede were.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9129 : In þe sixe & þrittiþe ȝer of is kinedom..deþ com him þus to.
- (a1382) WBible(1) Prol.Kings (Bod 959)14 : Þe psalmys sixe and threttiþe & þe hundrithe & tenþe..ben weuyd wiþ þe Abece of þe same nowmbre.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)155/26 : I hafe compiled þis buke..in þe foure and thrittyde ȝere efter þat I departed oute of þis land.
- a1450 Glo.Chron.B (Lond-U 278)9130 : Þritteþe [A: In enleue hondred ȝer & sixe & þritti..Of vr louerdes burtime, deþ com him þus to].