forty

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 数词 num.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɔːti/    美 [ˈfoːtɪj]|/ˈfɔɹti/|[ˈfɔɹɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces. US,slang
    — It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed
形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
数词 num.
  1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.
    — 'Tis forty years this very day, Since you and I, old girl, were married.

词形变化

fourty alternative,obsolete forties plural fourty alternative,obsolete more forty comparative most forty superlative fourty alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz
Old English fēowertiġ
Middle English fourti
English forty
From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English fort
English y
English forty
From fort + y.
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