cinquante

cinquante

See also: cinquantè and chînquante

French

French numbers ^(edit)

		500[a], [b]
←  40	←  49	50	51  → [a], [b]	60  →
		5
Cardinal: cinquante     Ordinal: cinquantième     Ordinal abbreviation: 50e, (now nonstandard) 50ème
French Wikipedia article on 50

Etymology

From Old French cinquante, from Vulgar Latin cīnquaginta, dissimilation of Latin quīnquāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomt, from earlier *pénkʷe(d)ḱomt (“five-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.kɑ̃t/

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Numeral

cinquante (invariable)

1. fifty

Related terms

• cinq

Further reading

• “cinquante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cīnquaginta, dissimilation of Latin quīnquāgintā.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /tsinˈkwantə/, (northern) /tʃ-/
• (late) IPA^(key): /sinˈk(w)antə/, (northern) /ʃ-/

Numeral

cardinal number

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cinquante

1. fifty

Related terms

• cinc

Descendants

• French: cinquante
• Norman: chînquante (Jersey)
• Walloon: céncwante