fifty

English numbers ^(edit)

		500
←  40	←  49	50	51  →	60  →
		5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftieth     Adverbial: fifty times     Multiplier: fiftyfold

• fiftie (obsolete)
• fitty, fiddy (slang)

PIE word
*pénkʷe

From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fĭf'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪfti/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɪfti
• Hyphenation: fif‧ty

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

• 50 (Arabic numeral); L (Roman numeral); fivety (proscribed)

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     ‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’
     ‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’

2. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

• Tiffy, tiffy

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  40	50	60  →
	5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftithe

• fifftiȝ, fifte, fifti, fyffty, fyfty

From Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz; equivalent to five +‎ -ty.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiftiː/, (rare) /ˈfiːftiː/

fifty

1. fifty

• English: fifty
• Scots: fifty, fyfty

• “fiftī, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.