fifty A1 Topic:Numbers & Quantity US /ˈfɪfti/ UK /ˈfɪfti/ See IPA manual Freq #3506 Meanings 1 num The number 50, which comes after forty-nine and before fifty-one. About fifty people attended the wedding. 2 noun A banknote or coin worth fifty. Do you want small bills, or are fifties OK? Thesaurus Synonyms 1 num · the number 50, which comes... 50l Word family Forms fifties Etymology AI details PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty. fifty Middle English fīftiġ Old English *fimf tigiwiz Proto-Germanic View etymology graph -> Topics Numbers & Quantity External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # fifty **Type:** Word **Level:** A1 **Part of speech:** num, noun **IPA (US):** /ˈfɪfti/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈfɪfti/ **Frequency rank:** 3506 ## Meanings 1. The number 50, which comes after forty-nine and before fifty-one. 2. A banknote or coin worth fifty. ## Examples - About fifty people attended the wedding. - Do you want small bills, or are fifties OK? ## Roots and Affixes - Root: fifty - Root: fīftiġ - Root: *fimf tigiwiz ## Etymology PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty. ## AI Etymology Fifty has a PIE background in *pénkʷe. Fifty comes from Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty. In current use, the main senses are “The number 50, which comes after forty-nine and before fifty-one” and “A banknote or coin worth fifty”. ## Topics - Numbers & Quantity markdown