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From ninety-nine + -th (ordinal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ninety-ninth
Today it means: The ordinal form of the number ninety-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 99 of a sequence. Full definition →
Today it means: The ordinal form of the number ninety-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 99 of a sequence. Full definition →
From ninety-nine + -th (ordinal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.