cinquante

See also: cinquantè and chînquante

French

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : cinquante     Ordinal : cinquantième

Etymology

From Old French cinquante, from Vulgar Latin *cīnquāgintā, from Latin quīnquāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomt, from earlier *pénkʷe(d)ḱomt (“five-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.kɑ̃t/

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Numeral

cinquante

1. fifty

Noun

cinquante m (plural cinquante)

1. fifty

Related terms

• cinq

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cīnquāgintā, from Latin quīnquāgintā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sinˈkwantə/

Numeral

cardinal number

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cinquante

1. fifty

Related terms

• cinc

Descendants

• French: cinquante
• Norman: chînquante (Jersey)
• Walloon: céncwante