eleventhadj.n.

/ɪˈlɛv(ə)nθ/

Forms:

α. Old English ællefta (Anglian), Old English ællyfta, Old English ændlefta, Old English ændleofta, Old English ændlyfta, Old English andlyfta, Old English ellefta (Mercian), Old English ęllefta (Northumbrian), Old English endlefta, Old English endleofta, Old English endlifta, Old English endlifte, Old English endlufta, Old English endlyfte, Old English enlefta, Old English Middle English endlefte (south-western in later use), Old English–early Middle English ændlyfte, Old English–early Middle English endleofte, Old English–early Middle English endlyfta, late Old English ælleofte, late Old English ændelefte, late Old English ændeleofte, early Middle English endlufte, early Middle English eollefte, Middle English elleft (northern), Middle English ellofte (northern), Middle English endlefde (south-western), Middle English endlofte (south-western), Middle English enlefte (southern).

β. southern early Middle English ellefþe, Middle English ellefthe, Middle English elleueþ, Middle English elleuethe, Middle English endleueþe, Middle English enlefþe, Middle English enleueth, Middle English enleueþe.

γ. Middle English alleuenþe (north-west midlands), Middle English eleuenþe, Middle English elleuefþe (south-western, probably transmission error), Middle English elleuenth, Middle English elleuenþe, Middle English endleuenth, Middle English enleuenth, Middle English enleuenthe, Middle English enleuenþe, Middle English enleventhe, Middle English vnleuenþe, 1500s elevynth, 1500s–1600s aleventh, 1500s–1600s eleuenth, 1500s–1600s elleventh, 1500s– eleventh, 1600s elventh; also Scottish pre-1700 allevinthe, pre-1700 elevinthe, pre-1700 elivinth, pre-1700 elleaventh.

δ. chiefly northern Middle English ellend, Middle English elleuend, Middle English elleuynd, Middle English ellevend, Middle English elned (probably transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 elewend, pre-1700 elleuende.

ε. chiefly northern and north midlands Middle English elefnte, Middle English elleuent, Middle English elleuynt, late Middle English aleffant (in a late copy); English regional 1800s– elevent (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 aleavint, pre-1700 alevint, pre-1700 alewint, pre-1700 aliwint, pre-1700 allevint, pre-1700 allewint, pre-1700 eleveant, pre-1700 elewint, pre-1700 elleuint, pre-1700 elleuynt, pre-1700 ellevint, pre-1700 ellevynt, pre-1700 ellewint, pre-1700 ellewynnit, pre-1700 ellivint, pre-1700 elyvint, pre-1700 1800s– elevent, 1900s– eleevent, 1900s– eleivent.

See also leventh adj. at leven adj. and n. Derivatives. Also represented by the abbreviations 11th, 11^th, xith, xi^th, XIth, XI^th, and variants.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eleven adj., -th suffix².

Etymology: Partly (i, in α. forms) cognate with Old Frisian andlofta , ellefta , alfta (West Frisian alfde , alfste ), Middle Dutch elfde , elfste (Dutch elfde ), Old Saxon ellifto (Middle Low German ellevede , ellefte , elfte ), Old High German einlifto (Middle High German einlift , einleft , eilft , German elfte ), Old Icelandic ellifti , Old Swedish ällipte , elleffte , ällopte (Swedish elfte ), Old Danish elløftæ (Danish ellevte ) < the Germanic base of eleven adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix². Partly (ii, in γ. forms) < eleven adj. + -th suffix². Compare the γ. forms at seventh adj., adv., and n. Compare leventh adj. at leven adj. and n. Derivatives.The β. forms probably partly show alteration of the α. forms after -th suffix², and partly a new formation (parallel to the γ. forms) < the ε. forms at eleven adj. and n. The δ. forms show alteration of the γ. forms after the corresponding form types of other ordinal numerals (which are in turn probably due to the influence of early Scandinavian): compare the β. forms at seventh adj., adv., and n., the β. forms at fourteenth adj. and n., etc. The ε. forms show -t , the usual suffix forming ordinal numerals in Scots and northern and north midland varieties of English: see -th suffix².

A. adj.

a. That comes next in order to the tenth. eleventh hour: the latest possible time, in allusion to the parable of the labourers (Matthew xx.); also eleventh-hour used attributively or as an adjective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > eleven > eleventh

eleventh971

levenc1480

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > the last minute

the last minute1567

eleventh hour1829

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] > last-minute

eleventh hour1870

971 Blickl. Hom. 93 Eall eorþe bið mid þeostrum oforþeaht æt þa endlyftan tid þæs dæges.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 6 Ða embe þa endlyftan tide he uteode.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Endleofte unþeau is folc beo butan steore.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 414 Þe enlefte day of heruest.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 22627 Þe signe o þe dai elleft, It es na skil þat it be left.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4798 Þe ellevend day men sal com out Of caves.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xix. 357 The enleuenth month is Nouembre.

a1400 Coer de L. 2455 The unleventhe day they saylyd in tempest.

1489 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 78 Aleffant day of moneth of March.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xvii According vnto the eleuen conclusion.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 10 Wpoun the ellewint day of July, &c.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 2 In th' eleuenth yere of y^e last Kings reign.

1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 60 Come the eleventh Plague, rather than this should be.

1829 R. Southey All for Love i. 11 Tho' at the eleventh hour Thou hast come to serve our Prince of Power.

1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 Mar. (1965) II. 820 But I am getting into that mistrustful state which 11th hour work is sure to engender.

1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 230 So, in response to John's eleventh-hour prayers, he did what he could.

1904 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/4 An eleventh-hour alteration in the arrangements for the return of Queen Alexandra from Copenhagen.

1966 Listener 1 Dec. 810/2 To commit a boy to preparing for either..examination..deprives the eleventh-hour developer of a chance of an award.

b. with ellipsis of the noun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > that which is eleventh

eleventhc1300

c1300 K. Alis. 57 Genner was the endleft [printed endlest] Feverel the tweolthe.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe enlefte is to leve þe lesnesse of zenne.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2845 Basyn was þe elleuefþe þat ȝe han slawe there.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1013 Þe Iacyngh þe enleuenþe gent.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 78 Þe elleuynt.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. viii. f. 23 The leuint, quha presumis of yame self ony thing.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The ellewint is continence quhairby we abstein nocht only from meats, bot also from al vickednes.

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 101 At the eleventh.

2. eleventh part n. one of eleven equal parts into which a quantity may be divided.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > an eleventh

eleventh1557

eleventh part1797

1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France in Wks. VIII. 402 An increase..from an eleventh to a twentieth part of the whole duty.

†3. quasi-adv. in the eleventh place, eleventhly adv.

ΚΠ

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gviii^v Eleuenth, they be mortifyed from all Feares, scrupuls and yuell dedes.

B. n.

1. = eleventh part n. at sense A. 2; see A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > an eleventh

eleventh1557

eleventh part1797

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v Sesquiundecima. 12 to 11: 24 to 22..|1¹/ ₁₁| a leuenth more.

2. Music. A note eleven diatonic degrees above or below a given note; also (usually) the interval between this and the given note, equivalent to an octave and a fourth; a chord containing two such notes.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > ninth-fourteenth

eleventh1597

fourteenth1597

ninth1597

tenth1597

thirteenth1597

twelfth1597

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 From Gam vt to D la sol re is a twelfe, although it seeme in common sence but an aleuenth.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Eleventh, an interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees, or eleven diatonic sounds.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 437 The chord of the dominant eleventh, when complete..is hardly likely to be found unabridged.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 438 [Some] theorists..repudiate the chords of the eleventh and thirteenth.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 26 The ninths and elevenths and whole-tone chords that form the stock-in-trade of Debussy's early mannered style.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eleventh
释义	eleventhadj.n. /ɪˈlɛv(ə)nθ/ Forms: α. Old English ællefta (Anglian), Old English ællyfta, Old English ændlefta, Old English ændleofta, Old English ændlyfta, Old English andlyfta, Old English ellefta (Mercian), Old English ęllefta (Northumbrian), Old English endlefta, Old English endleofta, Old English endlifta, Old English endlifte, Old English endlufta, Old English endlyfte, Old English enlefta, Old English Middle English endlefte (south-western in later use), Old English–early Middle English ændlyfte, Old English–early Middle English endleofte, Old English–early Middle English endlyfta, late Old English ælleofte, late Old English ændelefte, late Old English ændeleofte, early Middle English endlufte, early Middle English eollefte, Middle English elleft (northern), Middle English ellofte (northern), Middle English endlefde (south-western), Middle English endlofte (south-western), Middle English enlefte (southern). β. southern early Middle English ellefþe, Middle English ellefthe, Middle English elleueþ, Middle English elleuethe, Middle English endleueþe, Middle English enlefþe, Middle English enleueth, Middle English enleueþe. γ. Middle English alleuenþe (north-west midlands), Middle English eleuenþe, Middle English elleuefþe (south-western, probably transmission error), Middle English elleuenth, Middle English elleuenþe, Middle English endleuenth, Middle English enleuenth, Middle English enleuenthe, Middle English enleuenþe, Middle English enleventhe, Middle English vnleuenþe, 1500s elevynth, 1500s–1600s aleventh, 1500s–1600s eleuenth, 1500s–1600s elleventh, 1500s– eleventh, 1600s elventh; also Scottish pre-1700 allevinthe, pre-1700 elevinthe, pre-1700 elivinth, pre-1700 elleaventh. δ. chiefly northern Middle English ellend, Middle English elleuend, Middle English elleuynd, Middle English ellevend, Middle English elned (probably transmission error); Scottish pre-1700 elewend, pre-1700 elleuende. ε. chiefly northern and north midlands Middle English elefnte, Middle English elleuent, Middle English elleuynt, late Middle English aleffant (in a late copy); English regional 1800s– elevent (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 aleavint, pre-1700 alevint, pre-1700 alewint, pre-1700 aliwint, pre-1700 allevint, pre-1700 allewint, pre-1700 eleveant, pre-1700 elewint, pre-1700 elleuint, pre-1700 elleuynt, pre-1700 ellevint, pre-1700 ellevynt, pre-1700 ellewint, pre-1700 ellewynnit, pre-1700 ellivint, pre-1700 elyvint, pre-1700 1800s– elevent, 1900s– eleevent, 1900s– eleivent. See also leventh adj. at leven adj. and n. Derivatives. Also represented by the abbreviations 11th, 11^th, xith, xi^th, XIth, XI^th, and variants. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eleven adj., -th suffix². Etymology: Partly (i, in α. forms) cognate with Old Frisian andlofta , ellefta , alfta (West Frisian alfde , alfste ), Middle Dutch elfde , elfste (Dutch elfde ), Old Saxon ellifto (Middle Low German ellevede , ellefte , elfte ), Old High German einlifto (Middle High German einlift , einleft , eilft , German elfte ), Old Icelandic ellifti , Old Swedish ällipte , elleffte , ällopte (Swedish elfte ), Old Danish elløftæ (Danish ellevte ) < the Germanic base of eleven adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix². Partly (ii, in γ. forms) < eleven adj. + -th suffix². Compare the γ. forms at seventh adj., adv., and n. Compare leventh adj. at leven adj. and n. Derivatives.The β. forms probably partly show alteration of the α. forms after -th suffix², and partly a new formation (parallel to the γ. forms) < the ε. forms at eleven adj. and n. The δ. forms show alteration of the γ. forms after the corresponding form types of other ordinal numerals (which are in turn probably due to the influence of early Scandinavian): compare the β. forms at seventh adj., adv., and n., the β. forms at fourteenth adj. and n., etc. The ε. forms show -t , the usual suffix forming ordinal numerals in Scots and northern and north midland varieties of English: see -th suffix². A. adj. 1. a. That comes next in order to the tenth. eleventh hour: the latest possible time, in allusion to the parable of the labourers (Matthew xx.); also eleventh-hour used attributively or as an adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > eleven > eleventh eleventh971 levenc1480 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > the last minute the last minute1567 eleventh hour1829 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adjective] > last-minute eleventh hour1870 971 Blickl. Hom. 93 Eall eorþe bið mid þeostrum oforþeaht æt þa endlyftan tid þæs dæges. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 6 Ða embe þa endlyftan tide he uteode. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Endleofte unþeau is folc beo butan steore. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 414 Þe enlefte day of heruest. a1300 Cursor Mundi 22627 Þe signe o þe dai elleft, It es na skil þat it be left. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4798 Þe ellevend day men sal com out Of caves. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xix. 357 The enleuenth month is Nouembre. a1400 Coer de L. 2455 The unleventhe day they saylyd in tempest. 1489 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 78 Aleffant day of moneth of March. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xvii According vnto the eleuen conclusion. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 10 Wpoun the ellewint day of July, &c. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 2 In th' eleuenth yere of y^e last Kings reign. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 60 Come the eleventh Plague, rather than this should be. 1829 R. Southey All for Love i. 11 Tho' at the eleventh hour Thou hast come to serve our Prince of Power. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 Mar. (1965) II. 820 But I am getting into that mistrustful state which 11th hour work is sure to engender. 1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 230 So, in response to John's eleventh-hour prayers, he did what he could. 1904 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/4 An eleventh-hour alteration in the arrangements for the return of Queen Alexandra from Copenhagen. 1966 Listener 1 Dec. 810/2 To commit a boy to preparing for either..examination..deprives the eleventh-hour developer of a chance of an award. b. with ellipsis of the noun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > that which is eleventh eleventhc1300 c1300 K. Alis. 57 Genner was the endleft [printed endlest] Feverel the tweolthe. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 14 Þe enlefte is to leve þe lesnesse of zenne. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2845 Basyn was þe elleuefþe þat ȝe han slawe there. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1013 Þe Iacyngh þe enleuenþe gent. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 78 Þe elleuynt. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. viii. f. 23 The leuint, quha presumis of yame self ony thing. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The ellewint is continence quhairby we abstein nocht only from meats, bot also from al vickednes. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 101 At the eleventh. 2. eleventh part n. one of eleven equal parts into which a quantity may be divided. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > an eleventh eleventh1557 eleventh part1797 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France in Wks. VIII. 402 An increase..from an eleventh to a twentieth part of the whole duty. †3. quasi-adv. in the eleventh place, eleventhly adv. ΚΠ 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gviii^v Eleuenth, they be mortifyed from all Feares, scrupuls and yuell dedes. B. n. 1. = eleventh part n. at sense A. 2; see A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > eleven > an eleventh eleventh1557 eleventh part1797 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v Sesquiundecima. 12 to 11: 24 to 22..\|1¹/ ₁₁\| a leuenth more. 2. Music. A note eleven diatonic degrees above or below a given note; also (usually) the interval between this and the given note, equivalent to an octave and a fourth; a chord containing two such notes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > ninth-fourteenth eleventh1597 fourteenth1597 ninth1597 tenth1597 thirteenth1597 twelfth1597 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 From Gam vt to D la sol re is a twelfe, although it seeme in common sence but an aleuenth. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Eleventh, an interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees, or eleven diatonic sounds. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 437 The chord of the dominant eleventh, when complete..is hardly likely to be found unabridged. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 438 [Some] theorists..repudiate the chords of the eleventh and thirteenth. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 26 The ninths and elevenths and whole-tone chords that form the stock-in-trade of Debussy's early mannered style. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.971
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