Twentyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: XX

語源

From 中期英語 twenty, twenti, from 古期英語 twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) +‎ *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two + -ty, or twain + -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/
• (General American) enPR: twĕnʹtē, IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/, (in fast speech) /ˈtwɛni/
• (parts of the 米国発音 and Canada) IPA: /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
• (Philippines, nonstandard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈtweɪnti/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈʈwɛɳʈi/
  • (backing after W, colloquial, mainly South India) IPA: /ˈʈ(w)ɵɳʈi/
• 韻: -ɛnti, -ʌnti

数詞

twenty

1. The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

   Synonym: onescore (rare)

派生語

派生した語

• Hawaiian Creole: twenty
• Tok Pisin: twenti

名詞

twenty (plural twenties)

1. (in the plural) The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).

   She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?

2. (colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

   The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.

   • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:

     The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.

3. (CB slang) 10-20 (location).

   What’s your twenty, good buddy?

   • 2012, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, 0:54 from the start, in Settle Down‎ (music video), No Doubt (actor), Vevo:

     What's your twenty?
     Where's your brain?
     Checking in to check you out
     Concerned about your whereabouts

4. (UK, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.

別の表記

• thewenti, thwenti, tuenti, tuentie, tweinti, twenti, twentig, twentie, twenntiȝ, twentti, twinti, twonti, twontie

語源

From 古期英語 twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to twei +‎ -ty.

数詞

twenty

1. twenty (the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one)
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:

     At nyght was come into that hostelrye
     Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye

     There came at nightfall to that hostelry
     Some nine and twenty in a company

派生した語

• English: twenty
  • Hawaiian Creole: twenty
  • Tok Pisin: twenti
• Scots: twinty, twenty, tuenty
• Yola: dwanty

参照

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