five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fīv
ipa: /faɪv/
ipa: [fäːv]
note: Indic
ipa: /faj(v)/
homophone: fi
homophone: phi
Forms: form: fives
form: 5
form: V
Etymology: PIE word
 *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, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, 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.
Senses: examples: text: He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
glosses: The digit/figure 5.
examples: text: Can anyone here change a five?
glosses: A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
examples: text: All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
glosses: Anything measuring five units, as length.
examples: text: The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
glosses: A person who is five years old.
examples: text: See you at five.
glosses: Five o'clock.
examples: text: Take five, soldier.
glosses: A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A basketball team, club or lineup.
Derived terms: after-five
alert five
and I claim my five pounds
back five
bat five hundred
big five
category five
cheater five
count to five
eighty-five
fifteen
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-and-under
Five Ashes
five-a-side
five-bar gate
five-bar swordtail
fivebrane
five by five
five-by-five
five-card stud
five card stud
five-day fever
five-day week
five-dimensional
five-dollar word
five-door
five eighth
five-eighth
five-eighths
five eighths
five figures
five-finger
five finger
five-finger discount
five finger discount
five finger exercise
five-finger exercise
five fingers
five-fold
five-foot way
five-for
fivegram
fivehead
five-hole
Five Houses
five hundred
five-hundredth
five-in-a-row
fiveish
five-knuckle shuffle
five Ks
fiveleaf
five lemma
five-line whip
fiveling
five-masted
five mineral powder
five-minute hypothesis
fiveness
five-nine
five-o
five o'clock
five of a kind
five-of-a-kind
five-over-one
fivepence
fivepenny
five pillars
five-pin
five-pin bowling
fiveplex
five-point Calvinist
five-pointer
Five Points
Five Power Defence Arrangements
Fiver
fiver
five-ring
fivescore
five-second rule
five senses
fivesies
five-six
five sixths
five-sixths
five-spice
five-spice powder
five-spot
five-star
fivestones
five stones
fiveth
five thousand
five-thousander
five-tool
five-tool player
five tool player
five-twenties
fivever
five-way
fiveway
Five Ways
five will get you ten
five W's
five-year plan
flat five
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
Power 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
spoilfive
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