different between fourth vs fardel

English

Etymology

From Middle English fourthe, an alteration (due to four) of ferthe, from Old English f?orþa, f?owerþa, from Proto-West Germanic *feurþ?, from Proto-Germanic *fedurþô, equivalent to four +? -th.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (General American) enPR: fôrth, IPA^(key): /f???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?
• Homophone: forth

Adjective

fourth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number four.

Usage notes

Abbreviations: 4th, 4^th, IVth, IIIIth; (in names of monarchs and popes, and formal names in English) IV, IV.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fourth (plural fourths)

1. (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the fourth position.
2. (chiefly American) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
3. (not used in the plural) The fourth gear of an engine.
4. (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).

Synonyms

• (quarter): fourth part, quarter, ¼

Derived terms

Translations

Middle English

Adjective

fourth

1. Alternative form of ferthe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??(?)d?l/

Etymology 1

A clipped form of Middle English ferthendel (literally “fourth part”), equivalent to fourth +? deal. Cognate with Dutch vierendeel (“a fourth part, quarter”), German Viertel (“a quarter, fourth”), Danish fjerdedel (“a quarter”), Swedish fjärdedel (“a fourth, quarter”).

Alternative forms

• farthel, farl

Noun

fardel (plural fardels)

1. A fourth part: a quarter of anything.
   • c. 1666, W. Sutherland in R. Wodrow's The history of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, volume I, Appendix: page 101:

     I... bought a Farthel of Bread and a Mutckin of Ale.

2. (historical) An English unit of land area variously understood as the fourth part of an oxgang or of a yardland.
   • a. 1634, W. Noye, The Complete Lawyer, 57:

     You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

   • 1706, Phillips's New World of Words:

     Fardel of Land, the fourth part of a Yard-land.

Hypernyms

• (fourth of anything): See third (1+¹?₃ quarters & for smaller subdivisions)
• (fourth of a yardland): See oxgang (2 fardels & for larger divisions)
• (fourth of an oxgang): See nook (2 fardels & for larger divisions)

Synonyms

• (fourth of anything): See quarter
• (fourth of a yardland): See nook

Hyponyms

• (fourth of anything): See fifth (⁴?₅ of a quarter & for smaller subdivisions)
• (unit of land area): See acre (Various & for small subdivisions)

Related terms

• farthingdeal, a much smaller division of land making up ¹?₄ acre

Etymology 2

From Middle English fardel, from Old French fardel (“pack, bundle”), from Spanish fardel, diminutive of fardo (“pack, bundle”), from Arabic ???????? (farda, “cloth, woman's clothes”).

Alternative forms

• fardle
• farthel

Noun

fardel (plural fardels)

1. (obsolete) A bundle or burden.
   • 1855 [1606], Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (editor), The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, page 13 (of Appendix):

     It doth also appear by the abbreviate of the accounts sent home out of the Indies, that there remained in the hands of the agent, master Starkey, 482 fardels of calicos, viz.: 8 canisters of pintados, and 117 fardels of checkered stuffs, 51 fardels of long malow girdles, […].

Verb

fardel (third-person singular simple present fardels, present participle fardelling or fardeling, simple past and past participle fardelled or fardeled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels.

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Anagrams

• Alfred, Falder, fardle, farled, flared, larfed