quintuple
EnglishEdit
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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 |
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French quintuple, from Latin quintus (“five”) + plus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
quintuple (not comparable)
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TranslationsEdit
fivefold — see fivefold
NounEdit
quintuple (plural quintuples)
- a fivefold amount
TranslationsEdit
a fivefold amount
VerbEdit
quintuple (third-person singular simple present quintuples, present participle quintupling, simple past and past participle quintupled)
- (transitive) To multiply by five.
- (intransitive) To be multiplied by five.
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TranslationsEdit
multiply by five
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See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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Cardinal: cinq Ordinal: cinquième Ordinal abbreviation: 5e, (now nonstandard) 5ème Multiplier: quintuple | ||
French Wikipedia article on 5 |
quintuple (plural quintuples)
- quintuple
- (music) hundred twenty-eighth note
- une quintuple croche ― a hundred twenty-eighth note
NounEdit
quintuple m (plural quintuples)
- quintuple
- Donne-moi de l'argent et je t'en rendrais le quintuple. ― Give me the money, and I'll pay you back five-fold.
Further readingEdit
- “quintuple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
quintuple