twentieth

Etymology
From earlier, , from , , from. Equivalent to.

, is the expected development from, but in time, the opaque twent- was replaced by a more transparent twenty-, resulting in modern  (in the speech varieties this occurred in, the weak vowel in the final syllable of ,  was clearly distinct from that in ); similar processes explain the modern pronunciation of , , etc. This analogy was assisted by synizetic pronunciations of words such as , which allowed ,  to be interpreted as contractions of.

Adjective

 * 1) The ordinal form of the number twenty.

Abbreviations

 * 20th, 20th; (in names of monarchs and popes) XX

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: iyirminci
 * Basque: hogeigarren
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: двадесети
 * Buryat: хоридохи
 * Catalan:, vigèsim
 * Chichewa: chamakumi awiri
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: yigirminci
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dudeka
 * Estonian: kahekümnes
 * Ewe: blaevelia
 * Faroese: tjúgundi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ;  vingt
 * Georgian: მეოცე
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἰκοστός
 * Greenlandic: tyviat
 * Haitian Creole: ventyèm
 * Hindi: बिसवां
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tuttugasta
 * Indonesian: keduapuluh
 * Ingrian: kakskymmenäs
 * Interlingua: vintesime, vigesime
 * Irish: fichiú
 * Italian: (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) ventesimo, ventesima  (after the name) (abbreviation XX)
 * Japanese: 第二十
 * Kazakh: жиырмасыншы
 * Khakas: чибіргінӌі
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lakota: iwikcemna nuŋpa
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: zwanzegst
 * Macedonian: два́есетти
 * Malay: kedua puluh
 * Malayalam: ഇരുപതാം, ഇരുപതാമത്തെ
 * Manchu: ᠣᡵᡳᠴᡳ
 * Manx: feedoo
 * Navajo: naadíín góneʼ
 * Northern Sami: guoktelogát
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: vinten
 * Old English: twēntigoþa
 * Old French: vintisme
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ficheadamh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Shor: чегирбенчи
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: dvajseti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ikadalawampu
 * Tajik: бистум
 * Tatar: егерменче
 * Telugu: ఇరవయ్యో
 * Thai: ที่ยี่สิบ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: thứ hai mươi
 * Yiddish: צוואַנציקסט

Noun

 * 1) A person or thing in the twentieth position.
 * 2) One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: vintesimo, vigesimo, vintesima, vigesima
 * Italian:, ventesima
 * Macedonian: дваесетка
 * Manx: yn feedoo
 * Old English: twēntigoþa
 * Portuguese:, vigésima
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: kahdeskymmenesosa
 * French:
 * Georgian: მეოცედი
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: vintesimo, vigesimo
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: дваесеттина
 * Old English: twēntigoþa dǣl
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (одна) двадцатая (часть)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Yiddish: צוואַנציקסטל