five
See also: Five
Translingual
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| Signal flag for the digit 5 |
Etymology
From English five.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfai̯f][1]
Noun
five
- (international standards) NATO& ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 5.
- Synonym: pantafive (ITU/IMO)
References
- Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
English
| 50 | ||
| ← 4 | 5 | 6 → |
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| Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Collective: fivesome Multiuse 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
| PIE word |
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| *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, punch, pimp, and Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fīv IPA(key): /faɪv/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /fäːv/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪv
Numeral
Five dots
five
- A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
- 2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
- The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
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- Describing a group or set with five elements.
Related terms
- fifth
Translations
cardinal number
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describing set or group with five components
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See also
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Noun
five (plural fives)
- The digit/figure 5.
- He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
- A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
- Can anyone here change a five?
- Anything measuring five units, as length.
- All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
- A person who is five years old.
- The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
- Five o'clock.
- See you at five.
- A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
- Take five, soldier.
- (basketball) A basketball team, club or lineup.
Derived terms
- alert five
- back five
- bat five hundred
- big five
- cheater five
- eighty-five
- fifty-five
- first five-eighth
- five aggregates
- five-alarm
- five-and-dime
- five and dime
- five and nine
- five-and-ten
- five-and-twenty
- Five Ashes
- five-a-side
- five-bar gate
- five-by-five
- five by five
- five card stud
- five-card stud
- five-day fever
- five-day week
- five-dollar word
- five-eighth
- five eighth
- five eighths
- five-eighths
- five finger
- five-finger
- five finger discount
- five-finger discount
- five finger exercise
- five-finger exercise
- five-for
- five-hole
- five hundred
- five-hundredth
- five-knuckle shuffle
- five Ks
- five lemma
- five-line whip
- five-masted
- five-nine
- five-o
- five o'clock
- five of a kind
- five-of-a-kind
- five pillars
- five-pin
- five-pin bowling
- five-point Calvinist
- five-pointer
- fiver
- five-ring
- five-second rule
- five senses
- five-six
- five-sixths
- five sixths
- five-spice powder
- five-spot
- five-star
- five thousand
- five-tool player
- five tool player
- five-twenties
- five-way
- Five Ways
- five will get you ten
- five w's
- five-year plan
- forty-five
- Forty-five
- gimme a five
- gimme five
- give someone five
- go five-hole
- grade five
- hang five
- hi five
- hi-five
- high five
- high-five
- know how many beans make five
- Lipinski's rule of five
- low five
- nine to five
- nine-to-five
- ninety-five
- nine while five
- number five
- Pfizer's rule of five
- put two and two together and come up with five
- put two and two together and make five
- Rosie Palmer and her five sisters
- rule of five
- second five-eighth
- seventy-five
- sixty-five
- slap me five
- slap someone five
- spoil five
- starting five
- take a five
- take five
- that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee
- thirty-five
- tight five
- twenty-five
- twenty-five cent word
- twenty-five-eight
- twenty-five-thousander
Translations
digit
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banknote
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anything measuring five units
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five years old
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five o'clock
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five-minute rest
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basketball: team, club or lineup
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
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See also
| Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
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| eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |
Anagrams
- vife
Middle English
| 50 | ||
| ← 4 | 5 | 6 → |
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| Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifte | ||
Alternative forms
- fife, fif, vif, fyve
Etymology
From Old English fīf, from Proto-West Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Though Old English fīf was usually indeclinable, inflected forms of it are far from unknown. Forms with final -v- originate from intervocalic voicing in these inflected forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiːf/, /fiːv/
Numeral
five
- five
Related terms
- fifte
- fiftene
- fifty
Descendants
- English: five
- Scots: five, fif, fife, fyve
- Yola: veeve
References
- “fīve, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English five, from Old English fīf.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faiːv/
- (Dundee) IPA(key): /fɛv/
Numeral
| 5 | Previous: | fower |
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| Next: | sax |
five
- five
Related terms
- fift (“fifth”)
- fifty (“fifty”)
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French fievre, from Latin febris, from Proto-Italic *feɣʷris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris. Cognates include French fièvre and Norman fièvre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiːf/
Noun
five f (plural fives)
- fever
- delirium
References
- Simon Stasse (2004) Dictionaire Populaire de Wallon Liegeois, Société Royale Littéraire "La Wallonne"