five
Meanings
Plural: fives
Noun
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- a team that plays basketball
- a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
- The digit/figure 5.
- A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
- Anything measuring five units, as length.
- A person who is five years old.
- Five o'clock.
- A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
- A basketball team, club or lineup.
Adjective Satellite
- being one more than four
Num
- A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
- Describing a group or set with five elements.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*pénkʷe
From Middle English five, vif, fif, from Old English fīf (“five”), from Proto-West Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf (“five”), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
See also West Frisian fiif, Dutch vijf, German fünf, Norwegian and Swedish fem, Icelandic fimm; also 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). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Synonyms
5, basketball team, cinque, fin, five-spot, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, v, V
Scrabble Score: 10
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