cinquefoil

English

Fan-leaf cinquefoil (Potentilla flabellifolia)

Alternative forms

• cinqfoil

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cinqfoil, from cinq (“five”) + foil (“leaf”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋk.fɔɪl/

Noun

cinquefoil (plural cinquefoils)

1. A potentilla (flower).
2. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf with five lobes.
3. (topology) A particular knot of five crossings.

Synonyms

• (flower): fiveleaf
• (knot): cinquefoil knot, $5_{1}$, $T(5,2)$

Coordinate terms

• trefoil
• quatrefoil
• sexfoil
• octofoil

Related terms

• cinque
• multifoil
• polyfoil

Translations

potentilla — see potentilla

heraldry: stylized flower or leaf with five lobes

• Catalan: quinquefoli m
• French: quintefeuille (fr) f
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• German: Fünfpass m
• Italian: cinquefoglie (it) m

topology: knot

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Further reading

• cinquefoil knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia