15c. metathesis of þriteenþe (mid-14c.; see thirteen + -th (1)), which replaced forms from Old English þreoteoða (West Saxon), þriteogeða (Anglian). Similar formation in Old Norse þrettande, Danish trettende, Swedish trettonde, Old Frisian threttinde, Dutch dertiende, Old High German dritto-zehanto, German dreizehnte.
权威例句
1. Marco Polo is said to have sailed on the Pacific on his way to Java in the thirteenth century.
据说,13世纪时,马可·波罗在去爪哇岛的途中在太平洋上航行过。
2. It was still producing very considerable results in the thirteenth century.
它在13世纪仍然产生非常重要的后果.
3. The thirteenth-century cloisters are amongst the most beautiful in central Italy.
这些13世纪的回廊是意大利中部最美的建筑。
4. For example, they don't like to live on the thirteenth floor.
例如, 他们不喜欢住在第十三层楼.
5. Wholly depressed, he started for Thirteenth Street.