Twentiethとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier twenteth, twentith, from 中期英語 twentithe, twentiþe, from 古期英語 twēntigoþa. Equivalent to twenty +‎ -eth.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃n.ti.əθ], (dated) /-ɪθ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/, [ˈtw̥ɛ.ɾ̃i.əθ], /ˈtwɛn.i.əθ/, [ˈtw̥ɛ̃ɾ̃.i.əθ]
• ハイフネーション: twen‧ti‧eth

形容詞

twentieth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number twenty.
   • 1980, Christopher C. Rand, “Introduction”, in The Wilderness (Yüan-yeh) 原野‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page viii:

     As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.

   • 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:

     The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   • 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 15 March 2023:

     “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.

   • 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School‎, volume 20, number 2, page 268‎, archived from the original on 24 February 2025:

     But in fact the antinomy of exceptionalism and assimilationism has been there all along, and otherwise puzzling decisions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries become readily understandable when seen as moments when assimilationism was ascendant.

略語s

• 20th, 20; (in names of monarchs and popes) XX

派生語

名詞

twentieth (plural twentieths)

1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.
2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:

     There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.