Etimology
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca). Doublet of cinque, punch, pimp, and Pompeii. The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
numeral
five
A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
Describing a group or set with five elements.
Examples
The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
Related words
related terms
fifth
noun
five (plural fives)
The digit/figure 5.
A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
Anything measuring five units, as length.
A person who is five years old.
Five o'clock.
A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
(basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
Examples
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
Can anyone here change a five?
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
See you at five.
Take five, soldier.