fivesome

English

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Cardinal: five     Ordinal: fifth     Abbreviated ordinal: 5th     Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary     Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate     Adverbial: five times     Multiplier: fivefold     Latinate multiplier: quintuple     Distributive: quintuply     Germanic collective: fivesome     Collective of n parts: quintuplet, pentuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: pentad     Greek collective prefix: penta-     Latinate collective prefix: quinque-     Fractional: fifth     Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet     Number of musicians: quintet     Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe

Proto-Germanic *fimf

Proto-West Germanic *fimf

Old English fīf

Middle English fyf

English five

English -some

English fivesome

From five + -some.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪvsəm/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvsəm
• Hyphenation: five‧some

Noun

fivesome (plural fivesomes)

1. A group of five people or things.
2. An orgy (group sex) consisting of five people.

Synonyms

• (group of five): pentad; see also Thesaurus:quintet

Translations

group of five

• Bulgarian: петорка f (petorka)
• Esperanto: kvinopo
• Finnish: viisikko (fi)
• French: quintuor (fr) m
• Galician: quinteto (gl) m
• Polish: piątka (pl) f, pięcioro (pl)
• Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
• Russian: пятеро́ (ru) (pjateró), пятёрка (ru) f (pjatjórka)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: viđas

• Spanish: quinteto (es) m

Adjective

fivesome (not comparable)

1. (archaic) By fives; with five
   • 1885, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Eclectic Magazine:

     They tied his hands behind his back; They guarded him fivesome on each side.