sinque
English
Noun
sinque (plural sinques)
- Obsolete spelling of cinque.
- 1624 June 6 (licensing date), John Fletcher, “A Wife for a Moneth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 56, column 2:
- Yes goody filly, / And you had ſuch a Pipe, that piped ſo ſweetly, / You would dance to death; you have learnt your ſinque a pace.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sinque”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Istriot
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin cīnque, from Latin quīnque. Compare Venetian sinque, Italian cinque.
Numeral
sinque
Venetian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin cīnque, from Latin quīnque.
Numeral
sinque
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