late 14c., from fifteen + -th (1). By 15c. displacing forms derived from Old English fifteoea. Compare Old Frisian fiftuda, Dutch vijftiende, German fünfzehnte, Old Norse fimmtandi, Gothic fimftataihunda, with ordinal -d where English has -th. As a noun by late 14c.
雙語例句
1. The local church has traces of fifteenth-century frescoes.
當(dāng)?shù)亟烫萌粤粲?5世紀(jì)壁畫的遺跡。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He will have left by January the fifteenth.
到1月15日他肯定已經(jīng)離開了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The castle was enlarged considerably in the fifteenth century.