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From eighty-five + -th (ordinal suffix), after fifth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The ordinal form of the number eighty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 85 of a sequence. Full definition →
From eighty-five + -th (ordinal suffix), after fifth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.