seventy-five
UK[ˈsev.ən.ti faɪv]US[ˈsev.ən.ti faɪv]
cardinal number
the number equivalent to the product of seven and ten plus five; 75.
Morpheme Breakdown
seventy
five
seventy
five
Etymology
the english numeral "seventy-five" is a transparent compound formed from the base numbers "seventy" and "five." "seventy" itself has a deep germanic lineage, originating from old english hundseofontig, literally "seven tens," where the -tig suffix denotes a decade. "five" descends directly from old english fīf, traceable to the proto-indo-european root pénkʷe. the modern compound follows the standard english pattern for forming numbers between twenty and ninety-nine, where a multiple of ten is joined with a unit digit via a hyphen, creating a logical and additive numerical expression.
Analysis
Structure: seventy + five
- seventy: from old english hundseofontig, a compound of hund- (a hundred) and seofon (seven) + -tig (group of ten). origin: proto-germanic.
- five: from old english fīf, meaning the number after four. origin: proto-germanic, from pie pénkʷe.
Examples
the classic novel "the diary of a young girl" was written by anne frank when she was just seventy-five years old.
the speed limit on this rural highway is seventy-five miles per hour.
he scored seventy-five out of a hundred on the final exam.