cinq

English

Noun

cinq (plural cinqs)

1. Archaic form of cinque.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French cinq, from Old French cinc, from Vulgar Latin *cinque, dissimilation of Classical Latin quīnque (“five”), from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe, cognate with Portuguese and Spanish cinco, Italian cinque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃k/

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  • Homophones: scinque, scinques
• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃/
  • The form without /k/ may be used before any modified word in a consonant or aspirated h, but this is increasingly dated. It remains more or less obligatory before cents and mille, and is also usual before units of measurement (like minutes, mètres).
  • Homophones: ceins, ceint, ceints, sain, sains, saint, saints, sein, seing, seings, seins

Numeral

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	50
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Cardinal: cinq     Ordinal: cinquième     Multiplier: quintuple

cinq

1. five

   Mon père a cinq sœurs.

   My father has five sisters.

Derived terms

• cinq à sept
• cinq cents
• cinq sur cinq
• cinquante
• cinquième

Related terms

• quint

Descendants

• Guianese Creole: senk
• Haitian Creole: senk
• Karipúna Creole French: sẽk
• Louisiana Creole French: senk
• Mauritian Creole: senk
• Seychellois Creole: senk

Further reading

• “cinq”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• cinc
• cincq

Etymology

From Old French cinc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (in isolation or before a vowel) /sĩːk/, (before a consonant) /sĩː/

Numeral

cinq (invariable)

1. five

Descendants

• French: cinq (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English: cynk, synk, synke
  • English: cinque, sinque (influenced by Italian cinque); cinq
    • → Japanese: シンク (shinku)

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Old French

Numeral

cinq

1. Alternative form of cinc: five