ninefold
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English
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| Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Germanic collective: ninesome Collective of n parts: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium | ||
Etymology
From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine + -fold.
Adjective
ninefold (not comparable)
- Having nine times as much or as many.
- Having nine parts.
- 1872, Palmer Boyd, transl., Nágánanda, act III, page 46:
- If so, where is your ninefold thread?
Translations
having nine times as much or as many
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Adverb
ninefold (not comparable)
- By a factor of nine.
Translations
by a factor of nine
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