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, 50º     Fractional: quinquagésimo, cinquenta avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 50

Alternative forms

• cinqüenta (pre-1990 spelling)
• cinqùenta (pre-reform spelling)
• cincoenta (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cīnquāgintā

Old Galician-Portuguese cinquaenta

Portuguese cinquenta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cinquaenta, from Latin cīnquāgintā.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sĩˈkwẽ.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sĩˈkwẽ.tɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Hyphenation: cin‧quen‧ta

Numeral

cinquenta m or f

1. fifty (50)

Noun

cinquenta m (plural cinquentas)

1. fifty (an amount of 50)(Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Derived terms

• cinquentão

Related terms

• cinco
• quinquagésimo

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: sinkuenta
• Papiamentu: sinkuenta

Further reading

• “cinquenta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cinquenta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Numeral

cinquenta

1. obsolete spelling of cincuenta