thirty

English

English cardinal numbers
 <  29 30 31  > 
    Cardinal : thirty
    Ordinal : thirtieth

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Etymology

From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thritti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þritiġ (thirty), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (thrity, literally three tens), equivalent to three + -ty.[1][2] Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (thirty), West Frisian tritich (thirty), Dutch dertig (thirty), German dreißig (thirty).

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thirty

  1. The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.

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Noun

thirty (plural thirties)

  1. (slang) A rack of thirty beers.

References

  1. 1 2 thirty” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
  2. 1 2 thirty” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. Macmillan (US) (compare Macmillan (UK)
  4. the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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