five

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    Cardinal: five
    Ordinal: fifth
    Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary
    Reverse order ordinal: fifth to last, fifth from last, last but four
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate
    Adverbial: five times
    Multiplier: fivefold
    Latinate multiplier: quintuple
    Distributive: quintuply
    Group collective: fivesome
    Multipart collective: quintuplet, pentuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: pentad
    Greek collective prefix: penta-
    Latinate collective prefix: quinque-
    Fractional: fifth
    Latinate fractional prefix: quintant-
    Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet
    Greek prefix: pempto-
    Number of musicians: quintet
    Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum

Alternative forms

  • Arabic numerals: 5 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • Roman numerals: V

Etymology

From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (five), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (five) (compare West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (compare Welsh pump, Latin quinque, Tocharian A päñ, Tocharian B piś, Lithuanian penki, Russian пять (pjatʹ), Albanian pesë, pêsë, Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Armenian հինգ (hing), Persian پنج (panj), Sanskrit पञ्च (páñca)).

The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fīv
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  • Rhymes: -aɪv

Numeral

Five dots

five

  1. A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
  2. Describing a group or set with five elements.

Related terms

Translations

See also

Noun

five (plural fives)

  1. The digit/figure 5.
    He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
  2. A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
    Can anyone here change a five?
  3. Anything measuring five units, as length.
    All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
  4. A person who is five years old.
    The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
  5. Five o'clock.
    See you at five.
  6. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
    Take five, soldier.
  7. (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three four five six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

Anagrams


Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English fīf, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe; the v is from inflected forms of the word; these forms underwent intervocalic voicing.

Pronunciation

Numeral

cardinal number
5 Previous: fower
Next: six

five

  1. five

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: five
  • Scots: five, fif, fife, fyve

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English five, from Old English fīf, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faiːv/
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Numeral

cardinal number
5 Previous: fower
Next: sax

five

  1. five

Related terms


Walloon

Etymology

From Latin febris (fever).

Pronunciation

Noun

five f (plural fives)

  1. fever