cinquenta

See also: cincoenta and cinqüenta

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		500
←  40	←  49	50	51  →	60  →
		5
Cardinal: cinquenta     Ordinal: quinquagésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 50.º     Fractional: quinquagésimo, cinquenta avos

Alternative forms

• cincoenta (obsolete)
• cinqüenta (pre-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinquaenta, from Vulgar Latin cīnquāgintā, dissimilation of Latin quīnquāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomt, from earlier *pénkʷe(d)ḱomt (“five-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sĩˈkwẽ.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: cin‧quen‧ta

Numeral

cinquenta m or f

1. fifty (50)

Noun

cinquenta m (plural cinquentas)

1. fifty (an amount of 50)

Derived terms

• cinquentão

Related terms

• cinco
• quinquagésimo

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: sinkuenta
• Papiamentu: sinkuenta

Spanish

Numeral

cinquenta

1. Obsolete spelling of cincuenta