thirty
- cardinal number
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːti/ / /ˈθɝti/ / [ˈθɝɾi]
noun
Etymology: From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).
- A rack of thirty beers.
- A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
“[…] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.”
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Etymology: From Middle English thirty, metathetic alternant of Middle English thriti, þrittiȝ, from Old English þrītiġ (“thirty”), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz tigiwiz (“thirty”, literally “three tens”), equivalent to three + -ty. Cognate with Scots therty, tretty (“thirty”), West Frisian tritich (“thirty”), Dutch dertig (“thirty”), German dreißig (“thirty”).
- The cardinal number occurring after twenty-nine and before thirty-one, represented in Arabic numerals as 30.
“To conclude, here in tabular form is a summary of our ratings of espressos produced from thirty pod, capsule and disc blends.”