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forty

adj · noun · num · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːti/
  • Australian, New-Zealand, Southern-England: [ˈfoːtɪj]
  • General-American: fôr'tē
  • General-American: /ˈfɔɹti/
  • General-American: [ˈfɔɹɾi]
  • [ˈfɑɹɾij] St. Louis
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /ˈfɔɾte/
  • Scotland: /-tɪ/
  • Scotland: /-ti/
  • South-Asia: /fɒ(r).ʈi/
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ti
  • CMU ARPABET: F AO1 R T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

num

Meaning 3

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: twoscore

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

being ten more than thirty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 40, xl, twoscore

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 40, XL

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

From fort + y.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Proto-West Germanic *feuwar tigiwi Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourty English forty From Middle English fourty, forty, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four + -ty.

Across languages

Translations

239 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: veertig — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Albanian: dyzet — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Amharic: አርባ (ʾärba) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Amharic: ፵) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Arabic: أَرْبَعُونَ (ʔarbaʕūna) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Arabic: أربعين (ʔarbiʕīn) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Arabic: ربعين (rabʕīn) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Arabic: أربعين (ʔarbʕīn) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aragonese: quarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aragonese: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aramaic: ארבעין (arb‘īn) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aramaic: ܐܪܒܥܝܢ (arb‘īn) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Armenian: քառասուն (kʻaṙasun) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aromanian: patrudzãts — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Aromanian: patrudzãtsi — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Assamese: চল্লিছ (sollis) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Asturian: cuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Avar: кӏикъого (kʼiqxʼogo) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Azerbaijani: qırx — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Bashkir: ҡырҡ (qırq) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Basque: berrogei — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Belarusian: со́рак (sórak) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Bengali: চল্লিশ (colliś) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Biatah Bidayuh: pat puru — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Central Bikol: apat na pulo — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Breton: daou-ugent — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Bulgarian: четири́десет (četirídeset) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Bulgarian: четири́йсет (četiríjset) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Burmese: လေးဆယ် (le:hcai) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Carpathian Rusyn: со́рок (sórok) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Catalan: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala chunka — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chamorro: kuårenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chechen: шовзткъа (šovztqʼa) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪᎯ (nvgisgohi) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Cheyenne: névó'e — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chichewa: makumi anayi — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chinese Cantonese: 四十 (sei3 sap6) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 四十 — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hakka Chinese: 四十 (si-sṳ̍p) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 四十 (sìshí) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Teochew: 四十 (si3 zab8) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Teochew: 卌 (siab4) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Wu Chinese: 四十 — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chuukese: faik — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Chuvash: хӗрӗх (hĕrĕh) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Coptic: ϩⲙⲉ (hme) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Cornish: dew ugens — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Corsican: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Crimean Tatar: qırq — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Czech: čtyřicet — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Dalmatian: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Danish: fyrre — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Danish: fyrretyve — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Danish: firti — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Dhivehi: ސާޅީސް (sāḷīs) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Dutch: veertig — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Dzongkha: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Emilian: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Esperanto: kvardek — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Estonian: nelikümmend — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Extremaduran: cuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Farefare: pisnaasɩ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Faroese: fjøruti — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Fijian: vasagavulu — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Finnish: neljäkymmentä — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • French: quarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Middle French: quarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old French: quarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Frisian: fiuwertich — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • West-Frisian: fjirtich — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Friulian: cuarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Galician: corenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Georgian: ორმოცი (ormoci) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • German: vierzig — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Greek: σαράντα (saránta) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ancient Greek: τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ancient Greek: μ ́ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Gujarati: ચાલીસ (cālīs) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Haitian Creole: karant — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hausa: arba'in — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hawaiian: kanahā — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hawaiian Creole: forty — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים (arba'ím) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hindi: चालीस (cālīs) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Hungarian: negyven — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Icelandic: fjörutíu — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ido: quaradek — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Indonesian: empat puluh — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ingrian: neljäkymment — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Interlingua: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Irish: daichead — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Istriot: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Italian: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Japanese: 四十 (yonjū) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Japanese: 四十 (shijū) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Karachay-Balkar: къыркъ (qırq) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Kazakh: қырық (qyryq) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Khmer: សែសិប (sɐe səp) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Khmer: ៤០ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Komi-Permyak: нёльдас (ńoľdas) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Korean: 마흔 (maheun) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Korean: 사십 (sasip) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Central Kurdish: چل (çil) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Northern Kurdish: çil — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Kyrgyz: кырк (kırk) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ladin: caranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ladino: קוארינטה — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ladino: kuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Lakota: wikčémna tópa — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Lao: ສີ່ສິບ (sī sip) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Latin: quadraginta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Latvian: četrdesmit — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Leonese: cuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ligurian: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Livonian: nēļakimdõ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Lombard: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Louisiana Creole: karant — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • : ᦉᦲᧈᦉᦲᧇ (ṡii1ṡiib) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Luxembourgish: véierzeg — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Macedonian: четириесет (četirieset) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Malay: empat puluh — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Malayalam: നാല്പത് (nālpatŭ) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Maltese: erbgħin — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡳ (dehi) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Manx: daeed — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Māori: whā tekau — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Middle English: fourty — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Mokilese: pahjek — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Mongolian: дөч (döč) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Nauruan: animo — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Navajo: dízdiin — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Neapolitan: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Norman: quarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Northern Altai: тӧртен кырык (törten) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Norwegian: førti — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Occitan: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ojibwe: niimidana — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Church Slavonic: четꙑре десѧте (četyre desęte) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old East Slavic: сорокъ (sorokŭ) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old English: fēowertiġ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: quaraenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: quareenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Tupi: xe pó, xe py, abá pó, i py — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Tupi: xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Tupi: xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py abé — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Oromo: afurtama — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Papiamentu: kuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Pashto: څلوېښت (śalwex̌t) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Pennsylvania German: varzich — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Persian: چهل (čehel) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤌 (ʾrbʿm) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Piedmontese: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Plautdietsch: featijch — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Polish: czterdzieści — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Portuguese: quarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Punjabi: ਚਾਲ਼ੀ (cāḷī) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Punjabi: ਚਾਲ੍ਹੀ (cālhī) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Quechua: tawa chunka — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romagnol: cvaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romagnol: quarânta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romani: saranda — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romanian: patruzeci — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romansh: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romansh: curonta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romansh: curànta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romansh: curanta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Romansh: quaraunta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Russian: со́рок (sórok) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Saanich: ṈESEȽŚÁ ̧ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Samoan: fasefulu — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Sanskrit: चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśat) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Santali: ᱯᱩᱱ ᱜᱮᱞ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Santali: ᱵᱟᱨ ᱤᱥᱤ (bar isi) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Sardinian: baranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Sardinian: caranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Savosavo: aghavaleza — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Scottish Gaelic: dà fhichead — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceathrad — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Serbo-Croatian: четрдесет — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Serbo-Croatian: četrdeset — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Shan: သီႇသိပ်း (sìi síp) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Sicilian: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Sinhalese: හතළිහ (hataḷiha) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Slovak: štyridsať — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Slovene: štirideset — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Lower Sorbian: styrźasća — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Upper Sorbian: štyrceći — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Southern Altai: тӧртӧн (törtön) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Southern Altai: кырык (kïrïk) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Spanish: cuarenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Old Spanish: quaraenta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Swahili: arobaini — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Swahili: arubaini — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Swedish: fyrti — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Swedish: fyrtio — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tagalog: apatnapu — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tahitian: maha 'ahuru — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tajik: чил (čil) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tamil: நாற்பது (nāṟpatu) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tatar: кырык (qırıq) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Telugu: నలభై (nalabhai) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Thai: สี่สิบ (sìi-sìp) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tibetan: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tibetan: ༤༠ — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tigrinya: ኣርባዓ (ʾarbaʿa) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tocharian B: śtwārka — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tofa: дөртэн (dörten) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tok Pisin: foti — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tok Pisin: fopela ten — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Tongan: fāngofulu — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Turkish: kırk — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ottoman Turkish: قرق (kırk) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Turkmen: kyrk — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Udmurt: ньыльдон (ńyľdon) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Ukrainian: со́рок (sórok) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Unami: neinxke — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Urdu: چالیس (cālīs) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Uyghur: قىرىق (qiriq) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Uzbek: qirq — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Venetan: cuaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Venetan: quaranta — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Vietnamese: bốn mươi — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Vietnamese: bốn chục — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Volapük: foldeg — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Volapük: fols — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Walloon: cwarante — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Walloon: karantt — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Welsh: deugain — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Welsh: pedwar deg — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Wolaytta: oytama — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Yakut: түөрт уон (tüört uon) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Yiddish: פֿערציק (fertsik) — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Yucatec Maya: kaʼakʼáal — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Yup'ik: malruk ipiaq — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
  • Zazaki: çores — the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
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