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cinque

See also: Cinque, çìnque, cinqué, and cinquè

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PIE word
*pénkʷe

From Middle English cink, from Middle French cinq, from Vulgar Latin cīnque, from Latin quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of five, punch, pimp, and Pompeii.

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cinque (plural cinques)

  1. (dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
    • 1775, “a Connoisseur”, “Containing an Account of the Game of Back-gammon, with the most approved Method of playing at it, and the Rules of the Game. Together with the Artifices and Legerdemains that are frequently practised at it.”, in Annals of Gaming; or, The Fair Player’s Sure Guide. Containing Original Treatises on the following Games. […], London: […] G. Allen, […], pages 181–182:
      Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
    • 1775, “Introduction to the Game of Back-Gammon; With the most approved Method of playing at it”, in Charles Jones, editor, Hoyle’s Games Improved. Being Practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, […], London: […] J. Rivington and J. Wilkie, […], page 170:
      The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.

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  • → Japanese: シンク (shinku)

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Corsican cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : cinque

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Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, from Latin quinque, from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. Cognates include Italian cinque and French cinq.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃĩn.kwe/
  • Hyphenation: cin‧que

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cinque

  1. five

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sin.kwe/, /ˈsin-/

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cinque

  1. five

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Italian numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: cinque
    Ordinal: quinto
    Ordinal abbreviation: 5º
    Adverbial: cinque volte
    Multiplier: quintuplo
    Collective: tutti e cinque
    Fractional: quinto
Italian Wikipedia article on 5

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin cīnque, dissimilation of Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

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cinque (invariable)

  1. five

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cinque m (invariable)

  1. five

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Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
             
asso due tre quattro cinque sei sette
             
otto nove dieci fante donna,
regina 		re jolly, joker,
matta

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Etymology edit

From Classical quīnque via dissimilation of /kʷ–kʷ/ to /k–kʷ/. The same process affected cīnquāgintā < Classical quīnquāgintā (“fifty”).

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cīnque (indeclinable) (Late Latin, nonstandard)

  1. five
    • 2nd c. CE, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 10 05939 (1):[1]
      ... [vi]xit annis quadracinta cinque ex quo nati sunt fili vigintiunus et Camuriusnia Rofina filia ipsuius qui vixit annis cinquaginta quator baene maerenti fecerunt
      ...lived for forty-five years and had twenty-one sons and a daughter Camuriusnia Rofina, who lived fifty-four years; [together,] they made [this epitaph] for [their] well-deserving [parent]

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  1. ^ Sapienza University of Rome. 2017. Regio I - Latium et Campania: Fascicolo IV - Latium Adiectum I. Italia epigrafia digitale, vol. II. 110–111.
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