fifty

English Online Dictionary. What means fifty‎? What does fifty mean?

English

Alternative forms

• fiftie (obsolete)
• fitty, fiddy (slang)

Etymology

From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fĭf'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪfti/
• Rhymes: -ɪfti
• Hyphenation: fif‧ty

Numeral

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Synonyms

• 50 (Arabic numeral); L (Roman numeral); fivety (proscribed)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

Noun

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
2. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tiffy, tiffy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fifftiȝ, fifte, fifti, fyffty, fyfty

Etymology

From Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz; equivalent to five +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiftiː/, (rare) /ˈfiːftiː/

Numeral

fifty

1. fifty

Descendants

• English: fifty
• Scots: fifty, fyfty

References

• “fiftī, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.