-ième
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French -iesme, from Old French -esme, from Latin -ēsimus, via Vulgar Latin *-ĕsimus with irregular short *-e-, with analogy with ordinal numbers of tens like vīcēsimus or trīcēsimus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ième (plural -ièmes)
- -st, -nd, and -th; forms ordinal numbers
- quatrième ― fourth
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