forty

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The number 40, coming after thirty-nine and before forty-one.

   My uncle turned forty last week.

2. 2
   noun

   The number 40.

   Count up to forty before you open your eyes.

From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.

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