eleventh

Etymology

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

adj

  1. The ordinal form of the number eleven.

noun

  1. The person or thing in the eleventh position.
  2. One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
  3. (music) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.

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