forty
numEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourti English forty From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
- inherited from *fedwōr tigiwiz✻
- inherited from fēowertiġ
- inherited from fourti
Definitions
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in…
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.
- 'Tis forty years this very day, Since you and I, old girl, were married.
A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
- It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed
Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at forty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at forty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at forty
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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