five
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See also: Five
Translingual
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| Signal flag for the digit 5 |
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
five
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 5.
- Synonym: pantafive (ITU/IMO)
| code | Alfa | Bravo | Charlie | Delta | Echo | Foxtrot | Golf | Hotel | India | Juliett | Kilo | Lima | Mike |
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| November | Oscar | Papa | Quebec | Romeo | Sierra | Tango | Uniform | Victor | Whiskey | Xray | Yankee | Zulu | |
| zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) | hundred | thousand | decimal |
| ICAO/NATO | zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) |
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| ITU/IMO | nadazero | unaone | bissotwo | terrathree | kartefour | pantafive | soxisix | setteseven | oktoeight | novenine |
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, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
English
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| Cardinal: five Ordinal: fifth Latinate ordinal: quintary, quinary Reverse order ordinal: fifth to last, fifth from last, last but four Latinate reverse order ordinal: propreantepenultimate Adverbial: five times Multiplier: fivefold Latinate multiplier: quintuple Distributive: quintuply Germanic collective: fivesome Collective of n parts: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek or Latinate collective: pentad Greek collective prefix: penta- Latinate collective prefix: quinque- Fractional: fifth Elemental: quintuplet, pentuplet Greek prefix: pempto- Number of musicians: quintet Number of years: quinquennium, lustrum | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
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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, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
Pronunciation
Numeral
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.
- Describing a group or set with five elements.
Related terms
Translations
cardinal number
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describing set or group with five components
See also
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
- category five
- cheater five
- eighty-five
- fifty-five
- first five-eighth
- five-a-day
- five aggregates
- five-alarm
- five and dime
- five-and-dime
- five and nine
- five-and-ten
- five and ten
- five-and-twenty
- Five Ashes
- five-a-side
- five-bar gate
- five-bar swordtail
- five-by-five
- five by five
- five card stud
- five-card stud
- five-day fever
- five-day week
- five-dollar word
- five-door
- 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-fold
- five-for
- five-hole
- five hundred
- five-hundredth
- five-knuckle shuffle
- five Ks
- five lemma
- five-line whip
- five-masted
- five mineral powder
- 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
- Five Power Defence Arrangements
- fiver
- five-ring
- five-second rule
- five senses
- five-six
- five-sixths
- five sixths
- five-spice
- five-spice powder
- five-spot
- five-star
- five stones
- five thousand
- five-thousander
- 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
- shoot the 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
- two plus two equals five
Translations
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banknote
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anything measuring five units
five years old
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five o'clock
five-minute rest
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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
See also
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Anagrams
Middle English
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Alternative forms
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
Numeral
five
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “fīve, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
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| Cardinal: five Ordinal: fift | ||
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English five, from Old English fīf.
Pronunciation
Numeral
five
References
- “five, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
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
Noun
five f (plural fives)