twentyとは意味・読み方・使い方

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**English numbers**
		200
← 10	← 19	20	21 →	30 →
		2
Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentieth Abbreviated ordinal: 20th Adverbial: twenty times Multiplier: twentyfold Germanic collective: score Greek collective prefix: icosa-, icosi- Latinate collective prefix: viginti-

別の表記

Arabic numerals: 20 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
Roman numerals: XX

語源

From 中期英語 twenty, twenti, from 古期英語 twēntiġ (“twenty”, literally “two tens”), from Proto-Germanic *twaintigiwiz, *twai tigiwiz, an old compound of *twain- (“two”) +‎ *-tigaz (“group of ten”), equivalent to two +‎ -ty, or twain +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots twenty, tuenty (“twenty”), West Frisian tweintich (“twenty”), Dutch twintig (“twenty”), German zwanzig (“twenty”), Danish tyve.

発音

(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/
(General American) enPR: twĕnʹtē, IPA: /ˈtwɛnti/, (in fast speech) /ˈtwɛni/
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtwenti/
(Scotland) IPA: /ˈtwɛnte/, /-tɪ/, /-ti/
(parts of the 米国発音 and Canada) IPA: /ˈtwʌn(t)i/, /ˈtwʊn(t)i/
(Philippines, nonstandard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈtweɪnti/
(Indic) IPA: /ʈʋɛɳʈi/
- (rounded, mainly South India) IPA: /ʈ(ʋ)ɵɳʈi/
韻: -ɛnti, -ʌnti

数詞

twenty

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

Synonym: onescore (rare)

派生語

five-and-twenty
five-twenties
four and twenty
four-and-twenty
four-twenty
four twenty
I am twenty years old, I'm twenty years old
ten will get you twenty
twenties
twentieth
Twenty
Twenty20, T20
twenty bucks is twenty bucks, twenty dollars is twenty dollars
twenty-eight
twenty-eighth
twenty-eleven
twenty-fifth
twenty-first
twenty-five
twentyfold
twenty-foot equivalent unit
Twenty Forests
twenty-four
twenty-fourth
twenty hundred
twentyish
twentyman
Twentyman
twenty-minute egg
twenty-nail dystrophy
twentyness
twenty-nine
twenty-ninth
twentyodd
twenty-one
twentypenny, twentypence
twenty questions
twenty-second
twenty-seven
twenty-seventh
twenty-six
twenty-sixth
twenty-some
twenty-something
twenty-third
twenty-three
twenty to the dozen
twenty-twenty
twenty-twenty hindsight
twenty-two
twenty whole dollars
twenty winks

派生した語

Hawaiian Creole: twenty
Tok Pisin: twenti

名詞

twenty (plural twenties)

(in the plural) The numbers twenty (20) to twenty-nine (29).

She looks like she's in her early twenties, perhaps 21 or 22 years old?
(colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.

The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
- 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
  
  Of course I can do them just the same as the others—technically there's nothing whatever against it. Only no one ever heard of soft flims for anything like that—only for fives or tens or at the most a twenty.
- 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:
  
  The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
(CB slang) 10-20 (location).

What’s your twenty, good buddy?
- 2012, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, 0:54 from the start, in Settle Down‎ (music video), No Doubt (actor), Vevo:
  
  What's your twenty?
  Where's your brain?
  Checking in to check you out
  Concerned about your whereabouts
(UK, historical, military) An old English division of infantry.

中期英語

**Middle English numbers**
← 10	← 19	20	30 →
		2
Cardinal: twenty Ordinal: twentithe

別の表記

thewenti, thwenti, tuenti, tuentie, tweinti, twenti, twentig, twentie, twenntiȝ, twentti, twinti, twonti, twontie

語源

From 古期英語 twēntiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twai tigiwiz; equivalent to tweye +‎ -ty.

数詞

twenty

twenty (the cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one)
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:
  
  At nyght was come into that hostelrye
  Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye
  
  There came at nightfall to that hostelry
  Some nine and twenty in a company

派生した語

English: twenty
- Hawaiian Creole: twenty
- Tok Pisin: twenti
Scots: twinty, twenty, tuenty
Yola: dwanty

参照

“twentī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.


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