different between eighty vs eighth

English

Etymology

From Middle English ei?ti, ey?ty, ei?tety, aghty, from Old English hundeahtati?, from Proto-Germanic *aht?ut?hund? (“eighty”), equivalent to eight +? -ty. Cognate with Scots hechty, auchty (“eighty”), Saterland Frisian tachentich (“eighty”), West Frisian tachtich (“eighty”), Dutch tachtig (“eighty”), German Low German tachentig (“eighty”), German achtzig (“eighty”), Swedish åttio (“eighty”), Norwegian åtti (“eighty”), Icelandic áttatíu (“eighty”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??ti, IPA^(key): /?e?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?(?)e???i]
• Rhymes: -e?ti

Numeral

eighty

1. The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.

Related terms

• eight
• eighteen

Translations

See also

• Last: seventy-nine, seventy
• Next: eighty-one, ninety

English

Alternative forms

• eight (obsolete)
• eightth

Etymology

From Middle English ei?tthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?tth, IPA^(key): /e?t?/
• (General American) enPR: ?tth, ?th, IPA^(key): /e?t?/, /e??/
• Rhymes: -e?t?, -e??

Adjective

eighth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number eight.

Synonyms

• 8th, 8^th, VIIIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VIII

Translations

Noun

eighth (plural eighths)

1. The person or thing in the eighth position.
2. One of eight equal parts of a whole.
3. (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.

Synonyms

• (person or thing in the eighth position): eighth one
• (One of eight equal parts): ?, half-quarter, henry (for an eighth of an ounce of marijuana in the UK)

Coordinate terms

• (One of eight equal parts): epogoon (a number greater by a ratio of nine to eight; 1+¹?₈)

Translations

Verb

eighth (third-person singular simple present eighths, present participle eighthing, simple past and past participle eighthed)

1. to divide by eight
   • 2013 Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking page 31

     The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.

See also

• octave

Anagrams

• Height, Highet, height, highte