forty A1 Topic:Numbers & Quantity US /ˈfɔɹ.ti/ UK /ˈfɔːti/ See IPA manual Freq #5478 Meanings 1 num The number 40, coming after thirty-nine and before forty-one. My uncle turned forty last week. 2 noun The number 40. Count up to forty before you open your eyes. Thesaurus Word family Forms forties Etymology AI details From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty. fourti Middle English fēowertiġ Old English *fedwōr tigiwiz Proto-Germanic View etymology graph -> Topics Numbers & Quantity External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # forty **Type:** Word **Level:** A1 **Part of speech:** num, noun **IPA (US):** /ˈfɔɹ.ti/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈfɔːti/ **Frequency rank:** 5478 ## Meanings 1. The number 40, coming after thirty-nine and before forty-one. 2. The number 40. ## Examples - My uncle turned forty last week. - Count up to forty before you open your eyes. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: fourti - Root: fēowertiġ - Root: *fedwōr tigiwiz ## Etymology From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty. ## AI Etymology Forty comes from Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty. In current use, the main senses are “The number 40, coming after thirty-nine and before forty-one” and “The number 40”. ## Topics - Numbers & Quantity markdown