English Online Dictionary. What means forty? What does forty mean?
English
Alternative forms
- fourty (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian, New Zealand, horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fô'tē, IPA(key): /ˈfɔːti/
- (General American) enPR: fôr'tē, IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹti/, [ˈfɔɹɾi]
- (St. Louis) IPA(key): [ˈfɑɹɾij]
- (Indic) IPA(key): /fɒ(ɾ)tiː/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
- Hyphenation: for‧ty
Etymology 1
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).
Numeral
forty
- The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.
- Synonym: twoscore (archaic)
Derived terms
Related terms
- home forty
Translations
Noun
forty (plural forties)
- (slang) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From fort + -y.
Adjective
forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)
- Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔr.tɘ/
- Rhymes: -ɔrtɘ
- Syllabification: for‧ty
Noun
forty
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort