English Explanatory Dictionary

Cinco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.

Word forms

Cinco Cincos

Etymology

Ultimately from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish Cinco, an alternative form of Sinco/Singco, which are historically transcriptions following Spanish orthography of a Hokkien name with honorific used as surnames since the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines.

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