different between ordinal vs whatth

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?rdin?lis, adjective formed from noun ?rd? (“order”), + adjective suffix -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?).d?.n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d.n?l/

Adjective

ordinal (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of a number) Indicating position in a sequence.
2. (taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.
3. (nautical) Intercardinal.

Coordinate terms

• nominal, cardinal, interval, ratio

Derived terms

• interordinal
• ordinal direction
• ordinal number
• ordinal numeral
• supraordinal, superordinal

Related terms

• ordinate

Translations

See also

• ordinal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Level of measurement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

ordinal (plural ordinals)

1. An ordinal number such as first, second and third.

   The most common numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals"...and the "ordinals"... — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (2005), p97

2. A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services

Translations

Anagrams

• Arnoldi, Lorinda, Rodinal, nail rod

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ordinalis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ordinal (feminine singular ordinale, masculine plural ordinaux, feminine plural ordinales)

1. ordinal

Related terms

• ordinaire
• ordonner
• ordre

Descendants

• ? Romanian: ordinal

Further reading

• “ordinal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ordinalis.

Adjective

ordinal m or f (plural ordinais, comparable)

1. ordinal (indicating position in a numerical sequence)

Related terms

• ordem
• ordenar

Romanian

Etymology

From French ordinal

Adjective

ordinal m or n (feminine singular ordinal?, masculine plural ordinali, feminine and neuter plural ordinale)

1. ordinal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ordinalis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ordinal (plural ordinales)

1. ordinal

Derived terms

Related terms

• orden
• ordenar

English

Alternative forms

• whath

Etymology

what +? -th.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w?t?/

Noun

whatth

1. (nonstandard) Which ordinal number.

   Thanksgiving is on the whatth of November this year?

Synonyms

• how manyth

Quotations

• 1884, Selections from the Satires of Juvenal: To which is Added the Fifth Satire of Persius, page 144, Eldredge & Brother

  Macleane explains himself very well when he says that “Whath part?” would express quota pars, if we could coin an interrogative adjective after the analogy of the seventh part, eighth, etc.

• 1885, Georg Friedrich Schömann (translator), Marcus Tullius Ciceronis (author), De Natura Deorum: Libri Tres, footnote 79, page 212, Ginn & Heath

  quotus . . . quis-que, “the whatth one,” as we say “every tenth one, hundredth one”

• 1916-1935, Justice Holmes or Harold J. Laski, Holmes-Laski Letters (1953), Mark DeWolfe Howe (editor), page 614, Harvard University Press

  Also for the heaven knows whatth time Maitland’s Life of Leslie Stephen.

• 1939 January-June, Scribner’s Magazine, volume 3, page 302, Charles Scribners Sons

  Hail, dear old story, in coming to thee again for I know not the whatth time!

• 1996 March, Constantin Dumitrescu and V. Seleacu, The Smarandache Function, page 111, Erhus University Press

  Namely, for whath triplets...of positive integers the Smarandache function verifies a Fibonacci-like equality

• 1996 September 4, Jim Farrell, “Blue eyes cryin' in the rain”, bit.listserv.words-l, Usenet

  It'sometimes [sic.] amusing, sometimes, well, just majestic, especially King George the whath, E. Rex's father.

• 1996 October 7, Christian Alice Scarborough, “command not found : help!”, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet

  So I ask him, if the result of your subtraction, converted to decimal, is 21, then that represents the whatth letter of the alphabet?

• 1998 November 11, Paine Ellsworth, “Why all the flames lately?”, alt.writing, Usenet

  Bill Gates the thirty-WHATTH?

• 2005 October 2, Chuck Masterson, “The Suspense”, Chuck Masterson's Actual Blog, at chuckmasterson.blogspot.com [1]

  we'll be kept idling and warming up until the first competition, which is on the Whatth of Whentember.

• 2006 October 7, Jane M. Wilson, “A Prayer for Paris Hilton”, secret storm's secret site, at secretstorm.blogspot.com [2]

  But right now I’m re-reading one my most re-read reads, A Prayer for Owen Meany, for the I-don’t-know-whatth time.

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