Word definition: five

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.

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