quinque
LatinEdit
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Cardinal: quīnque, cīnque Ordinal: quīntus Adverbial: quīnquiēs, quīnquiēns Multiplier: quīnquiplus, quīnquiplex, quīntuplus, quīntuplex Distributive: quīnī Fractional: quīntāns |
Alternative formsEdit
- Symbol: V
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (the Italic *kʷ-kʷ, which developed by a consonant shift from *p-kʷ, is also found in words like coquō; compare proto-Celtic *kʷinkʷe).
Cognates include Sanskrit पञ्चन् (páñcan), Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), Old Armenian հինգ (hing), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 (fimf) and Old English fīf (English five). Doublet of Pompeii.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷiːn.kʷe/, [ˈkʷiːŋkʷɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwin.kwe/, [ˈkwiŋkwe]
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NumeralEdit
quīnque (indeclinable)
- five; 5
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.439–440:
- Iam tempora Titan quinque per autumnos repetiti duxerat anni
- Now Titan had led time through five autumn seasons
- Iam tempora Titan quinque per autumnos repetiti duxerat anni
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas 9:16:
- acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus respexit in caelum et benedixit illis et fregit et distribuit discipulis suis ut ponerent ante turbas
- Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus respexit in caelum et benedixit illis et fregit et distribuit discipulis suis ut ponerent ante turbas
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Vulgar Latin: cīnque (see there for further descendants)
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “quinque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quinque”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quinque in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quinque in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
- he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
- I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN