ninefold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: nine     Ordinal: ninth     Latinate ordinal: nonary     Adverbial: nine times     Multiplier: ninefold     Latinate multiplier: nonuple     Germanic collective: ninesome     Collective of n parts: nonuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad     Greek collective prefix: ennea-     Latinate collective prefix: nona-     Fractional: ninth     Elemental: nonuplet     Number of musicians: nonet     Number of years: novennium

Etymology

From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine +‎ -fold.

Adjective

ninefold (not comparable)

1. Having nine times as much or as many.
2. Having nine parts.
   • 1872, Palmer Boyd, transl., Nágánanda, act III, page 46:

     If so, where is your ninefold thread?

Translations

having nine times as much or as many

• Hungarian: kilencszer annyi/akkora, kilencszeres (hu)

having nine parts

• Hungarian: kilencrészes, kilences (hu), kilencrétű

Adverb

ninefold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of nine.

Translations

by a factor of nine

• Hungarian: kilencszeresen, kilencszeresére

See also

• nonadic

Anagrams

• nonfelid