DictionaryRoot: teoða
Old English

teoða

tenth

1 / 1
A short row of consecutively numbered lockers, with locker 18 open and emphasized directly after closed locker 17, making eighteenth position visible.
noun / adjective

eighteenth

ay-TEENTH/eɪtˈinθ/

The position numbered eighteen in a sequence, or occupying that position.

Etymology

The elements “eight” and “tenth” name the position eight places beyond tenth. Together they express order rather than quantity: immediately after seventeenth.

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