eleventh

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position

   The meeting ended at the eleventh hour.

2. 2
   noun

   position 11 in a countable series of things

   The meeting ended at the eleventh hour.

From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as ellefte, enlefte, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.

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