suffix — 3 senses
/-əθ/ · /ɪθ/
Etymology From Middle English -eth, -th, -ith, from Old English -eþ, -aþ, -þ, from Proto-Germanic *-þi, *-di, from Proto-Indo-European *-ti.
Archaic, Morpheme Used to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.
Humorous, Morpheme Used broadly with various verb forms for ironic pseudoarchaic or pseudoecclesiastical effect.
Etymology From Middle English -th, -eth, -the, -ethe, from Old English -þa, -þe, -oþa, from Proto-Germanic *-þô, *-tô, *-udô, *-dô, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós.
Morpheme used to create ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers ending in -y, namely the multiples of ten (other than ten itself): 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90; e.g. twentieth, thirtieth.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.