-eth English

Meaning -eth meaning

What does -eth mean?

-eth suffix

— (archaic) Used to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.

— (humorous) replaces -s or -es (of verb forms and noun plurals), or is appended to other verb forms, forming nonce, pseudoarchaic versions of the word

-eth suffix

— used to create ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers ending in -y, namely the multiples of ten (other than ten itself): 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90; e.g. twentieth, thirtieth.