fourth

Anglice

Appellatio

•    

  
   API: /forθ/ [fɔɻθ] (Americane)
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   API: /foːθ/ (Australiane)

Homonyma

•  forth 

Formae aliae

• 4^th (abbreviatio)
• IV (abbreviatio praecipue adhibita in nominibus formalibus)

Notatio

Four “quattuor” + -th ordinale.

= Anglica Media  ferthe 

= Anglica Antiqua  fēorþa 

← Protogermanice *fe(d)worþōn-

← Protindeuropaea *kʷetur-to-

Nomen adiectivum

fourth

1. √ quartus (-a, -um) || Qui tertium sequitur.

   1769: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

   (et vesper et mane fuerunt quartus dies) —Genesis 1:9 Versio Iacobi Regis

2. Quadrantarius; de quarta.

   1769: I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver.

   (hic habeo in manu mea quartam partem sicli argentei) — I Samuelis 9:8 Versio Iacobi Regis

Nomen substantivum

fourth (plur. fourths)

1. quarta (-ae, fem.) || Quarta pars; quadrans.
2. (musice) diatessaron (indecl., neut.) || Intervallum quinque semitoniorum → perfect fourth, subdominant
3. The Fourth — (Civitates Foederatae) 4 Iulii, dies independentiae.

Adverbium

fourth

1. Quartus in ordine: John went third, and I went fourth.