forty

• fourty (obsolete)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːti/
• (Southern England, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈfoːtɪj]
• (General American) enPR: fôr'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹti/, [ˈfɔɹɾi]
  • (St. Louis) IPA^(key): [ˈfɑɹɾij]

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /fɒ(r).ʈi/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
• Hyphenation: for‧ty

From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four +‎ -ty.

forty

1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

   Synonym: twoscore (archaic)

   • 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:

     'Tis forty years this very day,
     Since you and I, old girl, were married.

forty (plural forties)

1. (US, slang) A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
   • 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:

     It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed

From fort +‎ -y.

forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

• “forty n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.tɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtɘ
• Syllabification: for‧ty

forty

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort