Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of -eth1.
- n. Act; process: spilth.
- n. State; quality: dearth.
- n. Used to form ordinal numbers: millionth.
Wiktionary
- n. rare Forming nouns from verbs of action.
- n. rare Forming nouns from adjectives.
- n. Used to form the ordinal numeral when the final term of the spelled number is not "first", "second", or "third".
- n. archaic a variant of -eth, used to form the archaic third-person singular of verbs
Etymologies
- Representing Old English -þa, -þe, -oþa, -oþe, derived from a Proto-Indo-European superlative suffix. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English -thu, n. suff.Middle English -the, from Old English -tha, -the. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Not so long ago, it was free to attend the best public system of higher education in the world---th e University of California system.”
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