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fünfte , five / fīv/ • cardinal number equivalent to the sum of two and three; one more than four, or half of ten; 5: a circlet of five petals five of Sweden'… lact- , lact- stem of L. lac, lact- milk (cf. Gr. gála, galakt-; see GALAXY) in derivs.: lactation XVII(f. L. lactāre), lacteal XVII (f. L. lacteus), lacteou… F , F, f [Called ‘eff’]. The 6th LETTER of the Roman ALPHABET as used for English. It originated in the Phoenician symbol waw, a vertical line forking at… fifth , fifth / fi(f)[unvoicedth]/ • ordinal number constituting number five in a sequence; 5th: the fifth century bc. ∎ (a fifth/one fifth) each of five equ… Autarchy , autarchy absolute sovereignty. XVII. — Gr. autarkhíā, f. aútarkhos, f. autós AUTO- + árkhein rule; see -Y2.
autarky self-sufficiency. XVII. — Gr. aut… atrocious , atrocious •factious, fractious •anxious • captious •precious, semi-precious •infectious •conscientious, contentious, licentious, pretentious, sentent…
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