Etymology

somethingth

some·thingth
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Today it means: Used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain or unimportant. Full definition →

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The story

From something + -th (suffix forming ordinal numerals when the final term of the number is not ‘first’, ‘second’, or ‘third’).

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