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fifty

/ˈfɪfti/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪfti

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PIE word

*pénkʷe

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe

Proto-Germanic *fimf

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *-t

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s)

Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz)

Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz

Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz

Old English fīftiġ

Middle English fifty

English fifty

From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.

number fiftie · fitty · fiddy

The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one. It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?
Similar: 50, L, fivety

noun fifties · fiftie · fitty · fiddy

countable A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50. Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: l, cardinal, half-century, five, half, fifteen, fifty-three, half-hundred, quinquagesimal, quinquagenary, semicentennial, semicentenary, quinquagenarian, pentaconter, quinquagesima, sixty

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num cardinal number

Español	cincuenta
한국어	쉰 swin, 오십 osip
日本語	五十
中文	五十 wǔshí
हिन्दी	पचास pacās, पंजाह pañjāh
Kiswahili	hamsini
Português	cinquenta, cinqüenta
Français	cinquante
Deutsch	fünfzig, fuffzig
Italiano	cinquanta
Ελληνικά	πενήντα penínta
Română	cincizeci, cinzeci
Русский	пятьдеся́т pjatʹdesját
Tiếng Việt	năm mươi
العربية	خَمْسِينَ ḵamsīna, خَمْسُونَ ḵamsūna
עברית	חמישים, חֲמִשִּׁים khamishím

noun a banknote with a denomination of 50

日本語	50ドル札 gojūdorusatsu
Deutsch	Fünfziger
Русский	полти́нник poltínnik

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@misc{fifty_2026,
  title = {fifty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fifty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}