Hypertext Webster Gateway: "forty"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Forty \For"ty\ (f[^o]r"t[y^]), a. [OE. forti, fourti, fowerti,
AS. fe['o]wertig; fe['o]wer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to
OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel.
fj["o]rut[=i]u, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidw[=o]r
tigjus. See {Four}, and {Ten}, and cf. {Fourteen}.]
Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Forty \For"ty\, n.; pl. {Forties} (-t[i^]z).
1. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

2. A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

forty
adj : being ten more than thirty [syn: {40}, {xl}, {twoscore}]
n : the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
[syn: {40}, {XL}]


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