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  • eth
    eth
    noun
    a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
  • -eth
    -eth
    an ending of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, now occurring only in archaic forms or used in solemn or poetic language: doeth or doth; hopeth; sitteth.
  • Eth.
    Eth.
    abbreviation
    Ethiopia.
  • ETH
    ETH
    abbreviation
    Ethiopia (international car registration)

eth

1 American  
[eth] / ɛð /
Or edh

noun

  1. a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.


-eth 2 American  
  1. an ending of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, now occurring only in archaic forms or used in solemn or poetic language: doeth or doth; hopeth; sitteth.


-eth 3 American  
  1. variant of -th, the ordinal suffix, used when the cardinal number ends in -y: twentieth; thirtieth.


Eth. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Ethiopia.


-eth 1 British  

suffix

  1. forming the archaic third person singular present indicative tense of verbs

    goeth

    taketh

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

-eth 2 British  

suffix

  1. a variant of -th 2

    twentieth

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ETH 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Ethiopia (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Eth. 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Ethiopia(n)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

eth 5 British  
/ ɛð, ɛθ /

noun

  1. a variant of edh

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of -eth

From Old English -eth, -ath, -oth, -th; akin to Latin -t

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Suryakumar Yadav plays a series of 'outrageous' shots to score 61 from 25 balls and guide India to a total of 186-5 against Zimbabwe at eth T20 World Cup in Australia.

From BBC Nov. 6, 2022

While computers, digital cameras, and videos may have helped in the day-to-day advancement of each surfer, it was attitude and an open mind that mad eth trip successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tensions in Azerbaijan can only further stir Iran's other jostling eth nic minorities�the Kurds in adjoining Kurdistan, the Arabs near the Persian Gulf, the Baluchis and the Turkomans to the east.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ouchi notes that Intel Corp., a technological leader in the microelectronic field, has fostered a collective work eth ic by dividing employees into project teams.

From Time Magazine Archive

It began with words from the Book of Proverbs: “Happy is the man that find- eth wisdom, and getteth understanding.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

The words in which the ending -eth is dropped are 42, of which 18 are of French, and 24 of A.S. origin.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James

Both the -eth and -e forms are commonly used without the word ye, though.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James

Instead of -eth we even find -et, as in herknet, 1.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

The present singular, 3rd person, of the indicative, ends both in -es or -s, and -eth or -th, the former being the more usual.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

The corresponding Southern verbal inflexion -eth never occurs; while the Midland -en is only occasionally met with in the third person plural present, and has been introduced by a later copyist.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard

For details of the Ba-Hima type see Eth. p.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Eth., p. 130, where it is also said that the Crow were the original owners of the Black Hills.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Arch. and Eth. papers of the Peabody Museum, vol.

From The Siouan Indians by McGee, W. J. (William John)

"Compared to historical measurements, this was obviously very unusual," said Sonia Seneviratne, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

In a study published in Neuron, Kerstjens, Zador, and collaborators from Harvard University and ETH Zürich propose a new theory describing how the developing brain achieves this remarkable level of organization.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Remote work makes employees happier by increasing productivity and making work more interesting, says Filippo Pusterla, lecturer in the department of management, technology and economics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

During the experiment, no people were in the tunnel for safety reasons, with everything managed remotely from the ETH Zurich lab in northern Switzerland.

From Barron's May 11, 2026

For example, IBM said earlier this month that it used quantum-centric supercomputing to verify the behavior of a new molecule it created alongside researchers at a handful of universities, including Oxford University and ETH Zurich.

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 2026

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