ninth

From Middle English nynthe, nynte, from Old English nigoþa, from Proto-Germanic *newundô.

• (UK, US) enPR: nīnth, IPA^(key): /naɪnθ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnθ

ninth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number nine.

• 9th, (in names of monarchs and popes) IX

ninth (plural ninths)

1. The person or thing in the ninth position.
2. One of nine equal parts of a whole.

ninth (third-person singular simple present ninths, present participle ninthing, simple past and past participle ninthed)

1. to lose a ninth
   • 1973 Herakles on Thasos, page 79

     £vateueTai, should be translated "a tithe (offering or fee) is not given (or paid)", "no tithing" (literally, "a ninth is not given", "no ninth-ing", if I may coin such a word).

   • 2010 Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene page 161

     A yearling "is ninthed" for Semele on Myconos (LSCG 96.23–24); the victim "is not ninthed" for Heracles Thasios

2. to divide by nine
   • 2014 Contributions to Survey Sampling and Applied Statistics: Papers in Honor of H.O Hartley

     THE NINTHER-MEAN COMBINATION When data are only a little worse than usual, so far as wild and straggling values are concerned, we can do well enough by taking means of the results of ninthing.