five
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe
Proto-Germanic *fimf
Proto-West Germanic *fimf
Old English fīf
Middle English fyf
English five
From Middle English fyf, fyve, 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.
Inflected forms:
form: 5
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: V
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: fives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 5
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: V
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
pos: num
examples: The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.
The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
gloss: Describing a group or set with five elements.
pos: num
gloss: The digit/figure 5.
pos: noun
examples: He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
gloss: A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency.
pos: noun
examples: Can anyone here change a five?
gloss: Anything measuring five units, as length.
pos: noun
examples: All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
gloss: A person who is five years old.
pos: noun
examples: The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
gloss: Five o'clock.
pos: noun
examples: See you at five.
gloss: A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
pos: noun
examples: Take five, soldier.
gloss: A basketball team, club or lineup.
pos: noun
Related words: fifth
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Derived words: 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-barred 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-legged
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-piece door
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
five stones
fivestones
fiveth
five thousand
five-thousander
five-tool
five-tool player
five tool player
five-twenties
fivever
fiveway
five-way
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 of 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
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