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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forty

For′ty (fôr′ty̆), a. [OE. forti, fourti, fowerti, AS. feówertig; feówer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutīu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidwōr tigjus. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Fourteen.] Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.

For′ty, n.; pl. Forties (-tĭz). 1. The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

2. A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.