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pieci

five (the cipher, the cardinal number five)

pieci un pieci ir desmit — five plus five is ten

no pieciem atņemt četrus‎ ― to subtract four from five
five (A, excellent, the best school grade; syn. piecnieks)
saņemt matemātikā pieci‎ ― to get an A (lit. five) in mathematics
five (an amount equal to five)

pieci litri‎ ― five liters

piecas glāzes‎ ― five glasses

izlasīt piecas grāmatas‎ ― to read five books

satikties ar pieciem cilvēkiem‎ ― to meet with five people

piecus gadus vecs bērns‎ ― a five year old boy
five o'clock (a moment in time; five hours after midnight, or after noon)

pulkstenis ir pieci‎ ― it is five o'clock

trīs minūtes pirms pieciem‎ ― three minutes to five

lekcija beidzas piecos pēc pusdienas‎ ― the lecture finished at five o'clock after lunch (= in the afternoon)

declension of pieci

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)	feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pieci	piecas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	piecus	piecas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	piecu	piecu
dative (datīvs)	pieciem	piecām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pieciem	piecām
locative (lokatīvs)	piecos	piecās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—

Cardinal numbers from 0 till 19

	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9
0—	nulle	viens	divi	trīs	četri	pieci	seši	septiņi	astoņi	deviņi
1—	desmit	vienpadsmit	divpadsmit	trīspadsmit	četrpadsmit	piecpadsmit	sešpadsmit	septiņdesmit	astoņpadsmit	deviņpadsmit

↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “pieci”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

From *piek- (whence ordinal piektais, q.v.), with k > c because of the following plural -i, extended to this previously undeclinable stem by analogy; from Proto-Baltic *penk-, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe ‎(“five”), a word about which several theories have been proposed (old word for “thumb;” “hand (= five fingers together);” *pen-kʷe “and pen”, perhaps from kʷetwores pen-kʷe “four and pen (= 1, one?).” Cognates include Lithuanian penkì, Sudovian pank (< *penk-), Old Prussian penckts ‎(“fifth”), Proto-Slavic *pętь (Russian пять ‎(pjatʹ), Belarusian пяць ‎(pjacʹ), Ukrainian п'ять ‎(pʺjatʹ), Bulgarian пет ‎(pet), Czech pět, Slovak päť, Polish pięć), Proto-Germanic *fimf (< *pempe; Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 ‎(fimf), Old High German funf, finf, German fünf, Old English fīf, English five), Hittite paⁿta, Sanskrit पञ्चन् ‎(pañcan), Ancient Greek πέντε ‎(pénte), Latin quinque (< *penkʷe), Tocharian A pëñ, Tocharian B piš.^[1]

**Latvian cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : pieci Ordinal : piektais Multiplier : piecreiz Nominal : piecnieks Fractional : piektdaļa
Latvian Wikipedia article on pieci