oneth
/ˈwʌnθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth
adj
Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)ᵗʰ
noun
(in compounds with twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc.) A fractional part of an integer ending in one
noun
An ordinal value that is represented by an expression ending in 1 such as the (n + 1)th.
Example Sentences
- "Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more elementary law, which explains why the minus-oneth law had to be formulated. —Paul M. S. Monk, 2008. "Laws and the minus-oneth law of thermodynamics", in Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world, p. 8."
- "(see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72."
- "About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever."
- "The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please."
- "If the billionth dog in the line is a Saint Bernard, then the last (billion-plus-oneth) dog in the line is a Saint Bernard."
- "about twenty thirty-oneths in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-oneths to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies. —"Brooke & Co. (Limited) v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue". In The Weekly Reporter, vol. XLIV, p. 671, August 15, 1896. Supreme Court of Judicature, House of Lords, London."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one English -th English oneth From one + -th (ordinal suffix).