English Explanatory Dictionary

five

English dictionary entry

Meanings

num
  1. A numerical value equal to 5; the number following four and preceding six.
  2. Describing a group or set with five elements.
noun
  1. The digit/figure 5.
  2. A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver.
  3. Anything measuring five units, as length.
  4. A person who is five years old.
  5. Five o'clock.
  6. A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
  7. A basketball team, club or lineup.
name
  1. Abbreviation of MI5.

Pronunciation

/ˈfaɪ̯v/ [ˈfaɪ̯v] en-us-five.ogg /ˈfaːv/ [ˈfaːv] /ˈfaj(ʋ)/ [ˈfaj(ʋ)]

Word forms

five 5 V fives

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.

Synonyms

5 MI5 Security Service

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
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