Middle English Dictionary Entry
twentī̆eth num.
Entry Info
| Forms | twentī̆eth num. Also twentiethe, twentithe, twentid(e, twentethe, tuentithe, (early SWM) twenteuþe, twentuðe & twentiest. |
| Etymology | OE twēntigoða, twēntigþa, twēntegða, twēntugoþa; for form in -est cp. OFris. twintig(o)sta, -esta & MDu. twintichste, twentechste. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Ordinal number as adj.: (a) twentieth; ~ dai, the twentieth day; also, used adverbially: on the twentieth day; (b) in combs.: ~ som, a party of twenty [cp. twentisome n.]; the ~ part, one-twentieth; the ~ peni, a civil tax on movable goods.
Associated quotations
a
- a1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)310 : Þe twenteuþe dai is hire in þe time of iulie.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)264/137 : Þene twentiþe dai a-boute noon, a-kneo he sat a-doun..and seide is oresoun.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3641 : On ðat oðer, twentide dai Of ðe oðe[r] moned, tagte he wei.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9036 : In þe tuentiþe ȝer of is kinedom, þis dede was ydo.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ps.20.1 : The title of the twentithe salm: To victorie, the salm of Dauid.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)611 : On the twentyþe day..þey were redy for to wende.
b
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)5354 : No tong miȝt telle þe twentiþe parte of þe mede to menstrales þat mene time was ȝeve.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.255 : Kyng Henry hadde þe twentiþe peny of lewed men catel and þe dymes of holy chirche for þre ȝere.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1384/23 : Siliqua is þe twentiþe part of solid and haþ þe name of a fruyte of a tree.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.321 : It is a schame..þat a man of religion schal rydyn with his tentesum or his twentydsum on an hors of ten pound.
2.
Ordinal number as noun: the twentieth lot, etc.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Par.24.17 : Þe firste lot wente out of Joiarib, þe secounde of Jedeie..þe twentiþe of zechel.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)59/3 : The twentieth is Joy of contemplacioun.
3.
Associated quotations
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)115/1009 : Heo swarf to criste uppon þe þreo a twentuðe dei of nouembres moneð.
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)53/221 : He was i-schrined, in þe on an twentiþe ȝere Þat þe heiȝe men him brouȝten fro waram.
- a1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.50b : In his parlement..in leinte þe ȝere of his regne þe ȝette ant tuuentiþe.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9055 : He spousede hire at windelsore..In þe tuo & tuentiþe ȝer of is crouninge.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Par.24.18 : Þe two & twentiþe [vr. twentethe] of gamul.
- c1400 GGuy(1) (Tbr E.7)2139 : Al þe men..tald þir tales ilkone playnly vnto þe pape Iohn þe twa and twentide [Rwl: twenty].
- c1405 Chaucer CT.ML.(Elsm)B.5 : He wiste it was the eighte and twentithe day Of Aprill.
- c1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)140a : A stoon shal not be left on a stoon: mt. foure & twentiþe cap.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3086 : Þus seynt Woltrude to heuene blys y-past vp is, In Septembre þe won & twentythe day.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)94b : Pilatus was ruler and Iuge of þe Iuwery..þe fyve and twentyeþe day of þe moneþe of Marche.
- ?a1475 Lydg.KEng.(1) (Hrl 2261)p.549 : Syre Rychard..lord Scrope..and Syre Thomas Gray..the nyne and twentyest day of Iuyll..were byheded.